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Garrha rufa

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Oecophoridae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Garrha

Garrha rufa is a moth in the Oecophoridae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1883. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from New South Wales.

The wingspan is 15-18 mm. The forewings are deep reddish-ochreous or reddish-ochreous-brown, with scattered lighter ochreous scales. The costa is very narrowly carmine-pink and the tips of the scales are ochreous-whitish. The discal dots are obsolete, but there are some blackish-grey scales at the base, a small blackish-grey spot on the costa before the middle, tending to form a connected streak with a smaller cloudy blackish-grey spot in the disc at one-fourth from the base, and another on the fold somewhat nearer the base. There is an elongate cloudy blackish-grey blotch along the inner margin from one-third to three-fourth and a blackish-grey cloudy streak from four-fifth of costa to two-third of the inner margin, dilated on the costa into a small spot, whence proceeds a transverse slightly curved row of indistinct blackish-grey dots to the inner margin before the anal angle. There is a row of indistinct dark grey dots along the hindmargin and the apical fifth of the costa. The hindwings are ochreous-grey, the costa and base more whitish-ochreous.

References

Garrha rufa Wikipedia