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Parallactis periochra

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Autostichidae

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Parallactis

Parallactis periochra is a moth in the Autostichidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1916. It is found in Malawi.

The wingspan is about 19 mm. The forewings are brownish-ochreous. The discal stigmata are cloudy, dark fuscous, the plical minute, indistinct, somewhat beyond the first discal. There is a series of small indistinct dark fuscous dots just before the apical part of the costa and termen. The hindwings are whitish-grey-ochreous.

References

Parallactis periochra Wikipedia