Epiphractis amphitricha

Epiphractis amphitricha
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Oecophoridae
Subfamily: Oecophorinae
Genus: Epiphractis
Species: E. amphitricha
Binomial name
Epiphractis amphitricha
Meyrick, 1910
Synonyms
  • Orygocera amphitricha reunionensis Viette, 1988

Epiphractis amphitricha is a moth of the Oecophoridae family. It is known from the Indian Ocean islands of Mauritius and Réunion.[1]

The wingspan is about 22 mm. The forewings are dull light brownish-crimson, with some scattered fuscous scales. There is an inwardly oblique purplish-fuscous streak from the dorsum beyond the middle, reaching three-fourths across the wing and a cloudy purplish-fuscous dot in the disc beyond two-thirds, and a short inwardly oblique streak from the tornus. The hindwings are ochreous-whitish, slightly crimson-tinged towards the termen and there is a long subcostal pencil of ochreous-whitish hairs lying along the upper margin of the cell beneath the forewings.[2]

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