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| Ochyrotica connexiva (Walsingham, 1891) | |
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Ochyrotica connexiva is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in Burma. [1]
The wingspan is about 17 mm (0.67 in). The forewings are snow-white with a golden brown pattern.
The Pterophoridae or plume moths are a family of Lepidoptera with unusually modified wings. Though they belong to the Apoditrysia like the larger moths and the butterflies, unlike these they are tiny and were formerly included among the assemblage called "microlepidoptera".
Ochyrotica is a genus of moths in the family Pterophoridae and only genus in the Ochyroticinae subfamily. Ochyrotica was described by Lord Walsingham in 1891 and the subfamily Ochyroticinae was described by Lutz Thilo Wasserthal in 1970.
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