Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Carposinidae Scientific name Glaphyrarcha euthrepta | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Species G. euthrepta Rank Genus | |
Glaphyrarcha is a genus of moths of the Carposinidae family, containing only one species, Glaphyrarcha euthrepta. It is endemic to New Zealand.
The wingspan is about 43 mm. The head, palpi and thorax are ochreous-brown and the face is pale ochreous. The forewings are very elongate-triangular, the costa moderately arched, the apex obtuse and the termen rather obliquely rounded. They are brownish-ochreous with some scattered extremely minute fuscous specks. There is a short fuscous darker-irrorated (sprinkled) streak running along the base of the costa and a small dark fuscous dot in the disc. There is also a fuscous dot at end of the cell and two or three indistinct dots of dark fuscous irroration towards the termen in the middle as well as a terminal series of indistinct dark fuscous dots or marks. The hindwings and cilia are grey-whitish.