Hoplomorpha notatana

Hoplomorpha notatana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Oecophoridae
Genus: Hoplomorpha
Species: H. notatana
Binomial name
Hoplomorpha notatana
(Walker, 1863)
Synonyms
  • Conchylis notatana Walker, 1863
  • Hoplitica porphyraspis Turner, 1896

Hoplomorpha notatana is a moth in the Oecophoridae family. It was described by Walker in 1863.[1] It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Queensland.[2]

The wingspan is 19-25 mm. The forewings are whitish-grey, irregularly suffused with dark-fuscous scales. The basal one-third of the costa, apex and upper half of the hindmargin are dark-fuscous and there is a very large semicircular purplish-fuscous blotch extending on the inner-margin from one-fifth nearly to the anal angle reaching two-thirds across the disc, its anterior margin rounded, its posterior margin straighter, more oblique, and acutely angled just above the anal angle. There are also two small purplish-fuscous dots in the disc posterior to the summit of the dorsal blotch. The posterior portion of the disc is more or less suffused with fuscous, with a paler line first oblique, then parallel to the hindmargin. The hindwings are pale-ochreous, the apex suffused with fuscous.[3]

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