Scorpiopsis exanthistis

Scorpiopsis exanthistis is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1930. It is found in New Guinea.[1]

Scorpiopsis exanthistis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Depressariidae
Genus:
Scorpiopsis
Species:
S. exanthistis
Binomial name
Scorpiopsis exanthistis
Meyrick, 1930

The wingspan is about 14 mm. The forewings are pale yellow, reticulated throughout orange red and with a fuscous costal streak from the base to the middle, the costal edge of this blackish with a white mark before the middle. There is a spot of fuscous suffusion on the end of the cell, where a vague streak of suffusion runs to a fuscous mark on the costa at three-fourths. There is also a fuscous terminal streak, including some yellowish dots. The hindwings are pale yellowish.[2]

References
  1. Scorpiopsis at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms.
  2. Exotic Microlepidoptera 3 (18-20): 619


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