Batrachedra hypoxutha

Batrachedra hypoxutha
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Batrachedridae
Genus: Batrachedra
Species: B. hypoxutha
Binomial name
Batrachedra hypoxutha
Meyrick, 1897

Batrachedra hypoxutha is a species of moth of the Batrachedridae family. It is found in Australia.[1]

Original description

Female 11-12 mm. Head, thorax, and abdomen whitish-ochreous. Palpi white, second joint with very oblique ochreous or fuscous subapical band, scale-projection slight. Antennae white, ringed with brown. Legs dark fuscous, suffusedly banded with whitish. Forewings yellow-brown; costal edge suffusedly white; cilia light brownish. Hindwings grey; cilia light brownish. Brisbane and Rosewood, Queensland; Sydney, New South Wales; in September and December, three specimens.
Original description by Edward Meyrick

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