Hyperochtha dischema

Hyperochtha dischema
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lecithoceridae
Genus: Hyperochtha
Species: H. dischema
Binomial name
Hyperochtha dischema
(Meyrick, 1916)
Synonyms
  • Onebala dischema Meyrick, 1916

Hyperochtha dischema is a moth in the Lecithoceridae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1916. It is found in Malawi.[1][2]

The wingspan is 8-9 mm. The forewings are rather dark slaty-grey sprinkled with whitish and with the base more or less suffused with blackish. There is a blackish transverse fascia at one-third, preceded on the costa by an elongate suffused ochreous-whitish mark and a round blackish spot representing the second discal stigma. There is an ochreous-whitish spot on the costa at three-fourths sending a slightly sinuate line to the tornus, edged anteriorly with blackish suffusion. The hindwings are grey.[3]

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