Biology:Batrachedra mylephata

Short description: Moth species in family Batrachedridae

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

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

Original description

Male, 13-14 mm. Head white. Palpi white, basal, median, and subapical bands of second joint, and median ring of terminal blackish, scale-projection tuft-like, nearly as long as terminal joint. Antennae white, fuscous-ringed. Thorax white, sometimes fuscous-sprinkled. Abdomen whitish. Legs whitish, spotted with dark fuscous. Forewings white, irrorated with fuscous and dark fuscous; plical stigma linear, first and second discal rather elongate or dot-like, blackish; cilia above apex whitish with a dark fuscous median line, beneath whitish-fuscous. Hindwings grey; cilia whitish-fuscous. Brisbane, Queensland; in September, two specimens.

—Edward Meyrick

External links

• Australian Faunal Directory

Wikidata ☰ Q4869568 entry