Hypertropha chlaenota

Hypertropha chlaenota
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Depressariidae
Genus: Hypertropha
Species: H. chlaenota
Binomial name
Hypertropha chlaenota
Meyrick, 1887

Hypertropha chlaenota is a species of moth of the Depressariidae family. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Victoria, Queensland, New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory and South Australia.[1]

The wingspan is 20-23 mm. The forewings are rather dark shining fuscous, with coppery reflections and with a large whitish-ochreous basal patch, extending on the costa to the middle, on the inner margin to two-fifths, its outer edge nearly straight, on the costa marked with four direct cloudy blackish strigulae. There is a small whitish-ochreous irregularly triangular spot on the inner margin before the anal angle, containing a dot of groundcolour. The space between this and the basal patch is thickly strewn with small bluish-leaden metallic spots, and there is a curved broken dentate whitish-ochreous line from four-fifths of the costa to the anal angle, preceded by an irregular series of bluish-leaden metallic spots, before which is a blackish suffusion in disc. The hindwings are ochreous-yellow, with a moderate dark fuscous hindmarginal border.[2]

The larvae feed on Angophora and Eucalyptus species.

Puppa

References

  1. Don Herbison-Evans & Stella Crossley (26 August 2002). "Hypertropha chlaenota". uts.edu.au. Archived from the original on 2008-08-15. Retrieved 2009-02-12.
  2. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. (2) 1 (4) : 1042
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