Ardozyga Cephalota
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''Ardozyga cephalota'' is a species of moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1904. 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 Western Australia. The wingspan is about . The forewings are fuscous irrorated with dark fuscous and with the stigmata obscure, elongate, dark fuscous, each followed by a whitish-ochreous dot, the plical obliquely beyond the first discal. There is a whitish-ochreous dot on the dorsum at one-fourth, and one in the middle of the costa. There is also a small undefined spot of whitish-ochreous suffusion above the tornus, preceded by dark fuscous suffusion, and a fainter spot above this. Some indistinct whitish-ochreous dots are found beneath the costa posteriorly and along the termen. The hindwings are grey, paler, and thinly scaled towards the base.


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Ardozyga Moths described in 1904 Taxa named by Edward Meyrick Moths of Australia {{Ardozyga-stub