''Anaptilora ephelotis'' 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

Gelechiidae The Gelechiidae are a family of moths commonly referred to as twirler moths or gelechiid moths. They are the namesake family of the huge and little-studied superfamily Gelechioidea, and the family's taxonomy has been subject to considerable dis ...

. 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 1916. It is found in

Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...

, where it has been recorded from the

Northern Territory The Northern Territory (commonly abbreviated as NT; formally the Northern Territory of Australia) is an states and territories of Australia, Australian territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia. The Northern Territory ...

. 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 13 mm. The forewings are whitish ochreous, with a few scattered dark fuscous specks and a black dot towards the base above the middle. The stigmata is black, with the plical rather obliquely beyond the first discal and the second discal rather large. There are faint traces of a fuscous subterminal line and there is a marginal series of small indistinct dark fuscous dots round the posterior part of the costa and termen. The hindwings have the paler part of the termen somewhat oblique and is pale whitish-ochreous, tinged with grey posteriorly.''Exotic Microlepidoptera''. 1 (19): 591.

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Moths described in 1916 ephelotis Moths of Australia {{Gelechiidae-stub