Epiphractis thysanarcha

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Epiphractis thysanarcha
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E. thysanarcha
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Epiphractis thysanarcha
Meyrick, 1918

Epiphractis thysanarcha is a moth of the family Oecophoridae. This species was described from South Africa. [1]

The wingspan is about 20 mm. The head, palpi and thorax are dull brownish-crimson. The forewings are elongate, the costa moderately arched, dull light crimson, slightly ochreous tinged with a few scattered blackish scales posteriorly and an inwardly oblique dark grey streak from the middle of the dorsum, reaching half across the wing, edged posteriorly with light ochreous-yellowish. The second discal stigma is small and dark grey and there is a short rather inwards-oblique streak of dark grey suffusion from the dorsum beneath it. The hindwings are grey. [2]

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