Metachanda astrapias
| Metachanda astrapias | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Gelechioidea |
| Family: | Oecophoridae (disputed) |
| Subfamily: | Oecophorinae |
| Genus: | Metachanda |
| Species: | M. astrapias |
| Binomial name | |
| Metachanda astrapias (Meyrick), 1887[1] | |
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Metachanda astrapias is a species of moth in the family Oecophoridae. It is known from Mauritius.
This species has a wingspan of 12mm for the male. Its head and palpi are whitish-ochreous, antennae dark fuscous. Thorax is whitish-ochreous, abdomen light grey, anal tuft whitish-ochreous. The forewings are elongated, narrow with a gently arched costa. They are fuscous with a pale greyish-ochreous median longitudinal streak from the base, margined beneath by a blackish streak and above by a cloudy blackish dot. The hindwings are grey, more thinly scaled towards the base.[2]
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