Phaeotypa
| Phaeotypa | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gelechiidae |
| Genus: | Phaeotypa Turner, 1944 |
| Species: | P. stenochorda |
| Binomial name | |
| Phaeotypa stenochorda (Turner, 1933) | |
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Phaeotypa is a genus of moth in the family Gelechiidae. It contains the species Phaeotypa stenochorda, which is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Queensland.[1]
The wingspan is 19-21 mm. The forewings are brown-whitish sprinkled and suffused with fuscous-brown and with fuscous dots on the costa at the base, one-fifth, the middle, and three or four between this and the apex. There is a narrow fuscous-brown bar from the base along the fold to two-fifths and two suffused fuscous-brown spots beneath the costa beyond the middle, and a third at the apex, these may be confluent. The hindwings are pale grey.[2]
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