Scatochresis episema | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Oecophoridae |
Genus: | Scatochresis |
Species: | S. episema |
Binomial name | |
Scatochresis episema (Meyrick, 1883)[1] |
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Scatochresis episema is a moth of the Oecophoridae family. It is known from New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania and Victoria.
Adults have grey or brown forewings with black marks all over them.[2]
The larvae feed on the mammal scat of Phascolarctos cinereus.