Biology:Agriophara neoxanta

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Short description: Species of moth

Agriophara neoxanta
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Depressariidae
Genus: Agriophara
Species:
A. neoxanta
Binomial name
Agriophara neoxanta
Meyrick, 1915

Agriophara neoxanta is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1915. It is found in New Guinea and Australia , where it has been recorded from Queensland.[1]

The wingspan is about 17 mm for males and 23 mm for females. The forewings are white, with a few scattered fuscous scales and with small dark fuscous spots on the costa at the base, one-fourth, and the middle. The stigmata are raised and dark fuscous, the plical rather obliquely beyond the first discal, an additional dot beneath and somewhat before the second discal and there is an irregular fuscous and dark fuscous spot above the tornus. A curved subterminal series of small cloudy fuscous spots with some dark fuscous scales is found from four-fifths of the costa to the tornus and there is a series of fuscous dots sprinkled with dark fuscous around the posterior part of the costa and termen. The hindwings are pale whitish-grey.[2]

References

  1. Agriophara at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms.
  2. Exotic Microlepidoptera 1 (13): 410 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

Wikidata ☰ Q13248036 entry