Batrachedra hypachroa is a species of moth of the family Batrachedridae. It is found in Australia.
Batrachedra hypachroa | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Batrachedridae |
Genus: | Batrachedra |
Species: | B. hypachroa
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Binomial name | |
Batrachedra hypachroa Meyrick, 1897
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Original description
editMale, 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
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