Batrachedra hypoxutha

Batrachedra hypoxutha
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Batrachedridae
Genus: Batrachedra
Species:
B. hypoxutha
Binomial name
Batrachedra hypoxutha
Meyrick, 1897

Batrachedra hypoxutha is a species of moth of the family Batrachedridae. It is found in Australia.[1]

Original description

Female 11–12 mm. Head, thorax, and abdomen whitish-ochreous. Palpi white, second joint with very oblique ochreous or fuscous subapical band, scale-projection slight. Antennae white, ringed with brown. Legs dark fuscous, suffusedly banded with whitish. Forewings yellow-brown; costal edge suffusedly white; cilia light brownish. Hindwings grey; cilia light brownish. Brisbane and Rosewood, Queensland; Sydney, New South Wales; in September and December, three specimens.

— Original description by Edward Meyrick

References

Wikispecies has information related to Batrachedra hypoxutha.
  1. ^ Australian Faunal Directory


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