Batrachedra mylephata
Moth species in family Batrachedridae
| Batrachedra mylephata | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Batrachedridae |
| Genus: | Batrachedra |
| Species: | B. mylephata |
| Binomial name | |
| Batrachedra mylephata Meyrick, 1897 | |
Batrachedra mylephata is a species of moth of the family Batrachedridae. It is found in Australia.
Original description
Male, 13-14 mm. Head white. Palpi white, basal, median, and subapical bands of second joint, and median ring of terminal blackish, scale-projection tuft-like, nearly as long as terminal joint. Antennae white, fuscous-ringed. Thorax white, sometimes fuscous-sprinkled. Abdomen whitish. Legs whitish, spotted with dark fuscous. Forewings white, irrorated with fuscous and dark fuscous; plical stigma linear, first and second discal rather elongate or dot-like, blackish; cilia above apex whitish with a dark fuscous median line, beneath whitish-fuscous. Hindwings grey; cilia whitish-fuscous. Brisbane, Queensland; in September, two specimens.
— Edward Meyrick
External links
Wikispecies has information related to Batrachedra mylephata.
- Australian Faunal Directory
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