Epiphractis amphitricha
| Epiphractis amphitricha | |
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| 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 | |
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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]
Subspecies
- Epiphractis amphitricha amphitricha
- Epiphractis amphitricha reunionensis (Viette, 1988)
References
- Meyrick, E. 1910a. Descriptions of Micro-Lepidoptera from Mauritius and Chagos Isles. - Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1910(3):366–377.
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