Epiphractis rubricata

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

Epiphractis rubricata is a moth of the Oecophoridae family. This species was described from Pretoria and Pinetown in South Africa.[1]

The wingspan is 13-19 mm. The head and thorax of this species are dark purplish-fuscous closely irrorated (speckled) with white, the thorax sometimes tinged with yellowish. The forwings are elongate, the costa gently arched and of light reddish-ochreous-brown colour or dark fuscous. They are variably irrorated with whitish, the costal edge more or less whitish. There are two bright deep yellow dorsal patches, the first elongate, reaching from the base to or near the middle, confluent on the dorsum with second or in darker specimens separated from it by a patch of crimson-purple suffusion, its dorsal edge usually brown-reddish or purple towards the base, the second smaller, rounded, sometimes followed by crimson-purple suffusion, in lighter specimens the second blotch is surrounded by dark fuscous suffusion. The terminal area is sometimes suffused with purple. The hindwings are grey or rather dark grey.[2]

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