Diplogrypa
Diplogrypa is a genus of moths of the family Oecophoridae erected by Ian Francis Bell Common in 1997. It contains only one species, Diplogrypa microptera which was first described by Turner in 1916[1] and is found Australia, where it has been recorded from Queensland.[2]
| Diplogrypa | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Oecophoridae |
| Subfamily: | Oecophorinae |
| Genus: | Diplogrypa Common, 1997 |
| Species: | D. microptera |
| Binomial name | |
| Diplogrypa microptera (Turner, 1916) | |
| Synonyms | |
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The wingspan is 12–14 mm. The forewings are pale fuscous, sparsely sprinkled with fuscous and with a discal dot at two-fifths, a second beneath it on the fold and a third at three-fifths. The hindwings are ochreous whitish, at the apex tinged with fuscous.[3]
References
- Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Microptera group microptera". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved 22 May 2018.
- Savela, Markku, ed. (31 December 2013). "Diplogrypa Common, 1997". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved 12 September 2020.
- Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 41 (2): 372.
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