Ardozyga phloeodes

Ardozyga phloeodes is a species of moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1904. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Queensland.[1]

Ardozyga phloeodes
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A. phloeodes
Binomial name
Ardozyga phloeodes
(Meyrick, 1904)
Synonyms
  • Protolechia phloeodes Meyrick, 1904
  • Cryptolechia striata Turner, 1947

The wingspan is 19–21 mm. The forewings are white or whitish-fuscous mixed with white, irrorated with dark fuscous, and with all veins irregularly streaked with blackish-fuscous. The second discal stigma is dark fuscous surrounded with white. The hindwings are fuscous, darker posteriorly, especially in females, towards the base thinly scaled and whitish.[2]

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