Batrachedra hypachroa
Batrachedra hypachroa is a species of moth of the family Batrachedridae. It is found in Australia.
| Batrachedra hypachroa | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Batrachedridae |
| Genus: | Batrachedra |
| Species: | B. hypachroa |
| Binomial name | |
| Batrachedra hypachroa Meyrick, 1897 | |
Original description
Male, Female 11-12 mm. Head whitish-ochreous. Palpi whitish, median and subapical rings of second joint, and submedian and apical rings of terminal black, scale-projection slight. Antennae ochreous-whitish, ringed with dark fuscous Thorax pale ochreous, sprinkled with black. Abdomen grey-whitish. Legs whitish, ringed with dark fuscous. Forewings pale ochreous, rather thickly sprinkled with black; plical and first and second discal stigmata elongate, black; cilia on costa whitish-ochreous sprinkled with black, rest ochreous-whitish. Hindwings and cilia grey-whitish. Glen Innes (3000 feet), New South Wales; Mount Gambler, South Australia; in November and December, two specimens.
— Original description by Edward Meyrick
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