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Batrachedra eremochtha

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Batrachedra eremochtha
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Batrachedridae
Genus: Batrachedra
Species:
B. eremochtha
Binomial name
Batrachedra eremochtha
Meyrick, 1897

Batrachedra eremochtha is a species of moth of the family Batrachedridae. It is found in Australia.

Original description

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Male, 9 mm. Head whitish, crown greyish-tinged. Palpi white, subbasal and subapical rings of second joint, and basal and apical rings of terminal black, scale-projection very slight. Antennae whitish, fuscous-ringed, towards apex with three darker bands. Thorax and abdomen light grey, whitish-sprinkled. Legs dark grey, tarsi whitish-ringed. Forewings grey; an ill-defined whitish longitudinal streak in disc from about middle to near apex; plical stigma minute, black: cilia on costa grey, at apex ochreous-white with a black subbasal mark, beneath whitish-fuscous. Hindwings grey; cilia whitish-fuscous. Albany, West Australia; in October, one specimen.

— Original description by Edward Meyrick
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