Nephogenes melanoptila
| Trachypepla melanoptila | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Oecophoridae |
| Subfamily: | Oecophorinae |
| Genus: | Nephogenes |
| Species: | N. melanoptila |
| Binomial name | |
| Nephogenes melanoptila (Meyrick, 1883) | |
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Nephogenes melanoptila is a species of moth in the Oecophoridae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1883.[1] It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Queensland and New South Wales.[2]
The wingspan is 14-18 mm. The forewings are light fuscous-grey, with scattered grey-whitish scales, and sometimes a few black scales. There is a raised blackish tuft in the disc before the middle, and a second obliquely beyond it on the fold, sometimes connected with the margins by a few raised black scales. An irregular line of raised black scales is found from three-fifths of the costa to the anal angle, more strongly marked in the disc. There are also a few black scales forming a carved transverse line towards the hindmargin. The hindwings are fuscous-grey.
The larvae possibly feed on Kunzea capitata.[3]