Acria Sciogramma
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''Acria sciogramma'' is a
moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...
in the family
Depressariidae Depressariidae is a family of moths. It has formerly been treated as a subfamily of Gelechiidae, but is now recognised as a separate family, comprising about 2,300 species worldwide.Heikkilä, M. ''et al''. 2014: Morphology reinforces proposed mo ...
. It was described by
Edward Meyrick Edward Meyrick (25 November 1854, in Ramsbury – 31 March 1938, at Thornhanger, Marlborough) was an English schoolmaster and amateur entomologist. He was an expert on microlepidoptera and some consider him one of the founders of modern micr ...
in 1915. It is found in
New Guinea New Guinea (; Hiri Motu Hiri Motu, also known as Police Motu, Pidgin Motu, or just Hiri, is a language of Papua New Guinea, which is spoken in surrounding areas of Port Moresby (Capital of Papua New Guinea). It is a simplified version of ...
.


Description

The
wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–200 has a wingspan of , and a wandering albatross (''Diomedea exulans'') caught in 1965 had a wingspan of ...
is about 18 mm. The forewings are yellow-whitish, sprinkled with fuscous. The stigmata is small, raised and black. There are three spots of fuscous irroration, the second giving rise to a curved oblique cloudy line of fuscous irroration. A similar slightly curved line is found from three-fourths of the costa to the tornus and there are three small spots of fuscous irroration on the costa towards the apex and two or three dots on the tornal margin. The hindwings are whitish grey.Exot. Microlep. 1 (12): 381


References

Moths described in 1915 Acria {{Depressariidae-stub