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Euchaetis endoleuca

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Euchaetis endoleuca
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Oecophoridae
Genus: Euchaetis
Species:
E. endoleuca
Binomial name
Euchaetis endoleuca
Meyrick, 1888
Synonyms
  • Machimia baliosticha Meyrick, 1888

Euchaetis endoleuca is a moth in the family Oecophoridae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1888.[1] It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from South Australia and Western Australia.[2]

The wingspan is about 30 mm. The forewings are pale greyish ochreous, closely sprinkled with light brown reddish and with a rosy costal edge, except near the apex. The markings are blackish. There is a large dot on the inner margin near the base, and two small dots above it, as well as a dot in the disc at one-fourth, connected with the inner margin before the middle by a cloudy irregular line. There is also a dot in the disc before the middle, a second on the fold rather beyond it and a third in the disc at two-thirds. There is a very indistinct oblique irregular transverse line passing through the first two of these, and another more curved through the third, tending to unite in a suffusion on the inner margin. A well-marked series of dots runs from the costa beyond the middle to the inner margin before the anal angle, unevenly bent outwards and there is a hindmarginal row of small dots. The hindwings are whitish, with a rather narrow suffused pale fuscous hindmarginal border.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "​Euchaetis endoleuca​". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 24, 2018.
  2. ^ Savela, Markku, ed. (12 July 2014). "Euchaetis endoleuca Meyrick, 1888". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved 29 August 2020.
  3. ^ Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. (2) 2 (4): 938. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.