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Epiphractis amphitricha

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Epiphractis amphitricha
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Oecophoridae
Genus: Epiphractis
Species:
E. amphitricha
Binomial name
Epiphractis amphitricha
Meyrick, 1910
Synonyms
  • Orygocera amphitricha reunionensis Viette, 1988

Epiphractis amphitricha is a moth of the family Oecophoridae. It is known from the Indian Ocean islands of Mauritius and Réunion.[1]

The wingspan is about 22 mm. The forewings are dull light brownish-crimson, with some scattered fuscous scales. There is an inwardly oblique purplish-fuscous streak from the dorsum beyond the middle, reaching three-fourths across the wing and a cloudy purplish-fuscous dot in the disc beyond two-thirds, and a short inwardly oblique streak from the tornus. The hindwings are ochreous-whitish, slightly crimson-tinged towards the termen and there is a long subcostal pencil of ochreous-whitish hairs lying along the upper margin of the cell beneath the forewings.[2]

Subspecies

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  • Epiphractis amphitricha amphitricha
  • Epiphractis amphitricha reunionensis (Viette, 1988)

References

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  • Meyrick, E. 1910a. Descriptions of Micro-Lepidoptera from Mauritius and Chagos Isles. - Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1910(3):366–377.