Diplogrypa

Diplogrypa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Oecophoridae
Genus: Diplogrypa
Common, 1997
Species: D. microptera
Binomial name
Diplogrypa microptera
(Turner, 1916)
Synonyms
  • Machimia microptera Turner, 1916

Diplogrypa is a genus of moths of the Oecophoridae family. It contains only one species, Diplogrypa microptera which was described by Turner in 1916[1] and is found Australia, where it has been recorded from Queensland.[2]

The wingspan is 12–14 mm. The forewings are pale fuscous, sparsely irrorated with fuscous and with a discal dot at two-fifth, a second beneath it on the fold and a third at three-fifth. The hindwings are ochreous-whitish, at the apex tinged with fuscous.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Microptera group microptera". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 22, 2018.
  2. ↑ Parocystola at funet
  3. ↑ Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 41 (2) : 372


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