Epiphractis amphitricha
Epiphractis amphitricha is a moth of the family Oecophoridae. It is known from the Indian Ocean islands of Mauritius and Réunion.[1]
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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
- Epiphractis amphitricha amphitricha
- Epiphractis amphitricha reunionensis (Viette, 1988)
References
- Meyrick, E. 1910a. Descriptions of Micro-Lepidoptera from Mauritius and Chagos Isles. - Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1910(3):366–377.
- De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. 2014. Afromoths, online database of Afrotropical moth species (Lepidoptera). World Wide Web electronic publication (www.afromoths.net) [02.Apr.2014]
- Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 1910 : 373
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