Biology:Batrachedra hypoxutha

Short description: Moth species in family Batrachedridae

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

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

Original description

Female 11-12 mm. Head, thorax, and abdomen whitish-ochreous. Palpi white, second joint with very oblique ochreous or fuscous subapical band, scale-projection slight. Antennae white, ringed with brown. Legs dark fuscous, suffusedly banded with whitish. Forewings yellow-brown; costal edge suffusedly white; cilia light brownish. Hindwings grey; cilia light brownish. Brisbane and Rosewood, Queensland; Sydney, New South Wales; in September and December, three specimens.

—Original description by Edward Meyrick

References

Wikidata ☰ Q4869556 entry