Rhynchoferella syncentra

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Rhynchoferella syncentra
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R. syncentra
Binomial name
Rhynchoferella syncentra
(Meyrick, 1916) [1]
Synonyms
  • Sisyroxena syncentraMeyrick, 1916

Rhynchoferella syncentra is a moth of the Copromorphidae family. It is found in Madagascar and South Africa, where it is known from Kwazulu-Natal, Mpumalanga and Gauteng. [2]

Meyrick described this species as follows: [3]

Male 32 mm. Head and thorax pale greyish-ocherous. Abdomen grey. Forewings very elongate-triangular, costa slightly arched, faintly sinuate in middle, apex very obtusely rounded, termen rounded, little oblique; pale brownish-ochreous, irregularly suffused with fuscous towards costa, posterior half of wing sprinkled with dark fuscous specks with some fuscous suffusion, terminal edge suffused with fuscous: cilia fuscous. Hindwings pale greyish; cilia whitish, with faint greyish basal shade.

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References

  1. afromoths.net
  2. Mey, W., 2007. Esperiana Memoir 4: 1-304
  3. Meyrick, Exotic microlepidoptera, v. 1-5, Mar. 1912-Nov. 1937, page: 8