Opogona trichoceros

Opogona trichoceros
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Tineidae
Genus: Opogona
Species: O. trichoceros
Binomial name
Opogona trichoceros
Meyrick, 1930

Opogona trichoceros is a moth of the Tineidae family. It is found in New Guinea.

The wingspan is about 13 mm. The forewings are dark purplish-fuscous with an orange-yellow elongate mark on the costa about one-third and an orange-yellow subquadrate blotch on the dorsum towards the base, its upper posterior angle produced into a long pointed projection. The hindwings are dark fuscous, the basal half orange-yellow, the division suffused.[1]

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