Biology:Batrachedra hypachroa

Short description: Moth species in family Batrachedridae

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

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

Original description

Male, Female 11-12 mm. Head whitish-ochreous. Palpi whitish, median and subapical rings of second joint, and submedian and apical rings of terminal black, scale-projection slight. Antennae ochreous-whitish, ringed with dark fuscous Thorax pale ochreous, sprinkled with black. Abdomen grey-whitish. Legs whitish, ringed with dark fuscous. Forewings pale ochreous, rather thickly sprinkled with black; plical and first and second discal stigmata elongate, black; cilia on costa whitish-ochreous sprinkled with black, rest ochreous-whitish. Hindwings and cilia grey-whitish. Glen Innes (3000 feet), New South Wales; Mount Gambler, South Australia; in November and December, two specimens.

—Original description by Edward Meyrick

External links

• Australian Faunal Directory

Wikidata ☰ Q4869555 entry