Scrobipalpa pyrrhanthes
| Scrobipalpa pyrrhanthes | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gelechiidae |
| Genus: | Scrobipalpa |
| Species: | S. pyrrhanthes |
| Binomial name | |
| Scrobipalpa pyrrhanthes (Meyrick, 1904) | |
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Scrobipalpa pyrrhanthes is a moth in the Gelechiidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1904. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded form New South Wales, Western Australia and Victoria.[1]
The wingspan is 8–9 mm. The forewings are whitish-ochreous, irregularly irrorated with dark fuscous, and somewhat mixed with ferruginous-reddish. There are two spots of blackish irroration on the costa towards the base and two on the fold obliquely beyond these. The stigmata are blackish, surrounded with reddish-ferruginous, the plical obliquely before the first discal. The hindwings are light grey.[2]
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