Epiphractis crocoplecta

Epiphractis crocoplecta
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Oecophoridae
Subfamily: Oecophorinae
Genus: Epiphractis
Species: E. crocoplecta
Binomial name
Epiphractis crocoplecta
Meyrick, 1913

Epiphractis crocoplecta is a moth of the Oecophoridae family. This species was described from a specimen from Three Sisters in South Africa.[1]

The wingspan of the females is about 15 mm. The head is pale yellowish, suffused with brown-reddish on the sides. The forewings are elongate, the costa moderately arched, dull crimson-purplish with the costal edge grey. There is a patch of ochreous suffusion along the basal two-fifths of the dorsum and an inwardly oblique yellow streak from the dorsum behind the middle reaching more than half across the wing, edged anteriorly with deep ferruginous. A short inwardly oblique slender yellow streak is found from the tornus, and there is a furruginous-brown transverse dot above the apex of this representing the second discal stigma. The hindwings are grey, paler towards the base.[2]

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