Biology:Eupselia tristephana
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Oecophoridae |
| Genus: | Eupselia |
| Species: | E. tristephana
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| Binomial name | |
| Eupselia tristephana Meyrick, 1915
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Eupselia tristephana is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1915. It is found in Australia , where it has been recorded from Western Australia, the Northern Territory and Queensland.[1]
The wingspan is 12–13 mm. The forewings are dark bronzy fuscous with an erect triangular light ochreous-yellow blotch from the dorsum before the middle, its apex rather bent over posteriorly. There are three bright coppery-blue-purple transverse lines reaching from the dorsum three-fourths across the wing, the first immediately beyond the yellow blotch, the second connected with a light yellow spot on the costa beyond the middle, the third limiting an oval bronzy patch strewn with minute longitudinal blackish and rosy-whitish strigulae extending along the termen nearly to the costa. There is a narrow black streak along the lower half of the termen containing three small round black spots set in whitish-ochreous rings becoming golden metallic on the terminal edge. Two short oblique blue-purple marks are found before the apex. The hindwings are dark fuscous.[2]
References
- ↑ Eupselia at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms.
- ↑ Exotic Microlepidoptera 1 (10): 306
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Wikidata ☰ Q13625988 entry
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