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Phaeotypa

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Gelechiidae

Rank
  
Genus

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Species
  
P. stenochorda

Phaeotypa is a genus of moth in the family Gelechiidae. It contains the species Phaeotypa stenochorda, which is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Queensland.

The wingspan is 19–21 mm. The forewings are brown-whitish sprinkled and suffused with fuscous-brown and with fuscous dots on the costa at the base, one-fifth, the middle, and three or four between this and the apex. There is a narrow fuscous-brown bar from the base along the fold to two-fifths and two suffused fuscous-brown spots beneath the costa beyond the middle, and a third at the apex, these may be confluent. The hindwings are pale grey.

References

Phaeotypa Wikipedia