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Enchocrates picrophylla

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Enchocrates picrophylla
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Depressariidae
Genus: Enchocrates
Species:
E. picrophylla
Binomial name
Enchocrates picrophylla
Meyrick, 1886
Synonyms
  • Enchocrates soreutis Meyrick, 1888

Enchocrates picrophylla is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1886. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from South Australia and New South Wales.[1]

The wingspan is 20–21 mm. The forewings are pale ochreous grey with the costal edge, inner margin, and all veins obscurely lined with dull flesh colour. There is a fuscous dot beneath the costa at one-sixth and a dark fuscous dot on the fold before the middle, and a second in the disc at two-thirds, as well as three very obscure dull flesh-coloured transverse lines, the first from one-third of the costa, becoming obsolete beneath, the second from the middle of the costa to the anal angle, very strongly angulated in the middle, the third from three-fourths of the costa to the anal angle, strongly curved above the middle. There is a row of well-defined dark fuscous dots along the hindmargin and apical part of the costa. The hindwings are grey whitish.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Enchocrates at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms.
  2. ^ Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 10 (4): 827 Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.