Hoplomorpha camelaea

Hoplomorpha camelaea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Oecophoridae
Genus:	Hoplomorpha
Species:	H. camelaea
Binomial name
Hoplomorpha camelaea (Meyrick, 1888)
Synonyms
Eulechria camelaea Meyrick, 1888

Hoplomorpha camelaea is a moth in the Oecophoridae family. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Victoria,^[1] Queensland, New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory.

The wingspan is about 17 mm. The forewings are whitish-ochreous with a large dark reddish-fuscous white-margined blotch extending on the inner margin from one-fourth to four-fifth, gradually narrowing upwards, reaching more than half across the wing, the upper side rounded but deeply triangularly indented before the middle. There is a cloudy greyish-pink band from the middle of the costa to the apex of this blotch, posteriorly margined by a brown line suffused with ferruginous and a curved transverse linear dark fuscous mark in the disc, its lower extremity touching the upper posterior angle of the blotch. There is a dark brown streak, suffused beneath with ferruginous, along the costa from the base, interrupted by a median band, beyond it leaving the costa and continued in a strong outward curve to the anal angle, broader and more suffused anteriorly in the disc, attenuated and nearly obsolete on the anal angle. The curve is posteriorly well-defined and margined by a whitish-ochreous line except towards the costa. Beyond this line, the apical area is wholly greyish-pink. The hindwings are whitish-ochreous, the apical half dark grey, continued as a suffused streak along the hindmargin to the anal angle.^[2]

References

1. Euchaetis at funet
2. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. (2) 2 (4) : 943

• "Australian Moths Online :: Hoplomorpha camelaea". Retrieved 2008-12-27.
• "Hoplomorpha camelaea". Retrieved 2008-12-27.