| Epiphractis aulica | |
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| Species: | E. aulica |
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| Epiphractis aulica Meyrick, 1912 | |
Epiphractis aulica is a moth of the family Oecophoridae. This species was described from South Africa.[1]
The wingspan is about 18 mm. The head and palpi are purplish-rosy sprinkled with whitish points and the face is whitish. The thorax is light ochreous-yellow, with the abdomen grey. The forewings are elongate, the costa moderately arched, ferruginous suffused with purplish-rosy and with an elongate light ochreous-yellow patch extending along the dorsum from the base to beyond the middle and reaching to the fold. The hindwings are grey, somewhat darker posteriorly.[2]
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