Agonopterix Epichersa
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''Agonopterix epichersa'' 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. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1914. It is found in
Sichuan Sichuan (; zh, c=, labels=no, ; zh, p=Sìchuān; alternatively romanized as Szechuan or Szechwan; formerly also referred to as "West China" or "Western China" by Protestant missions) is a province in Southwest China occupying most of the ...
, China. 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 22 mm. The forewings are light fuscous, slightly rosy tinged and finely sprinkled with whitish and with scattered dark fuscous scales. There are about seven small indistinct rather dark fuscous dots along the costa and two indistinct rather dark fuscous spots in the disc about two-fifths. There is a small cloudy fuscous spot towards the costa in the middle. The hindwings are light rosy fuscous sprinkled with whitish.''Exotic Microlepidoptera''. 1 (8): 253.


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