Biology:Trichoptilus ceramodes
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Short description: Species of plume moth
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pterophoridae |
| Genus: | Trichoptilus |
| Species: | T. ceramodes
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| Binomial name | |
| Trichoptilus ceramodes Meyrick, 1886
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Trichoptilus ceramodes is a moth of the family Pterophoridae that is found in Australia , including New South Wales and South Australia.
Original description
(wingspan male, female 14 millimetres (0.55 in)) Head and thorax light ochreous. Antennae ochreous, with a blackish line above. Palpi pale ochreous, base white, second joint reaching above middle of face. Abdomen light ochreous, with an obscure interrupted blackish line on each side of the back; apex in male with two white obliquely ascending tolerably appressed hair pencils, valves small. Legs white, longitudinally lined with dark fuscous; posterior pair banded with brownish ochreous on middle and apex of tibiae and apex of 1st joint of tarsi. Fore wings cleft from middle, segments linear; light ochreous; a small brown spot near inner margin before one-fourth; a cloudy fuscous spot on base of 2nd segment; 1st segment with broad cloudy fuscous basal, median and apical bands; costal cilia grey, with white spots between the bands; rest of cilia grey, with a few whitish scales, a white bar at anal angle, and another on lower margin before middle of 2nd segment. Hind wings cleft firstly from before one-third, secondly from base, segments linear; rather dark fuscous; cilia light ochreous-greyish, inner margin of 3rd segment with a row of white hair scales, without black scales. This species appears to be destitute of black scales in the cilia of both wings. Sydney, New South Wales; Port Lincoln, South Australia; two specimens in September and November.—Original description by Edward Meyrick
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q7840944 entry
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