Batrachedra mylephata
| Batrachedra mylephata | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Batrachedridae |
| Genus: | Batrachedra |
| Species: | B. mylephata |
| Binomial name | |
| Batrachedra mylephata Meyrick, 1897 | |
Batrachedra mylephata is a species of moth of the Batrachedridae family. It is found in Australia.
Original description
Male, 13-14 mm. Head white. Palpi white, basal, median, and subapical bands of second joint, and median ring of terminal blackish, scale-projection tuft-like, nearly as long as terminal joint. Antennae white, fuscous-ringed. Thorax white, sometimes fuscous-sprinkled. Abdomen whitish. Legs whitish, spotted with dark fuscous. Forewings white, irrorated with fuscous and dark fuscous; plical stigma linear, first and second discal rather elongate or dot-like, blackish; cilia above apex whitish with a dark fuscous median line, beneath whitish-fuscous. Hindwings grey; cilia whitish-fuscous. Brisbane, Queensland; in September, two specimens.
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