Epiphractis aulica

Epiphractis aulica
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Oecophoridae
Subfamily: Oecophorinae
Genus: Epiphractis
Species: E. aulica
Binomial name
Epiphractis aulica
Meyrick, 1912

Epiphractis aulica is a moth of the Oecophoridae family. This species was described from South Africa.[1]

The wingspan is about 18 mm. The head and palpi are purplish-rosy sprinkled with whitish points and the face is whitish. The thorax is light ochreous-yellow, with the abdomen grey. The forewings are elongate, the costa moderately arched, ferruginous suffused with purplish-rosy and with an elongate light ochreous-yellow patch extending along the dorsum from the base to beyond the middle and reaching to the fold. The hindwings are grey, somewhat darker posteriorly.[2]

References

  1. ↑ De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. 2014. Afromoths, online database of Afrotropical moth species (Lepidoptera). World Wide Web electronic publication (www.afromoths.net) [09.Dec.2015]
  2. ↑ Meyrick E. 1912c. New South African Microlepidoptera. - Annals of the South African Museum 10(3):53–74. (on page 66)
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