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Garrha gypsopyga

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Oecophoridae

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Garrha

Garrha gypsopyga is a moth in the Oecophoridae family. It was described by Turner in 1946. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from New South Wales.

The wingspan is about 24 mm. The forewings are light brownish-ochreous suffusedly irrorated with brownish-crimson. The extreme costal edge is whitish and the stigmata is dark fuscous, the plical spot obliquely beyond the first discal spot and there are triangular costal and dorsal patches of crimson-greyish suffusion meeting on the second discal stigma. There is a curved dentate reddish-grey line near the termen and some grey dots around the posterior part of the costa and termen. The hindwings are light ochreous-yellowish, the termen suffusedly mixed with grey and the dorsum suffused with grey.

References

Garrha gypsopyga Wikipedia