Ardozyga Pacifica
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''Ardozyga pacifica'' is a species of moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1904. It is found in
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, where it has been recorded from New South Wales, Western Australia and Victoria. The wingspan is . The forewings are light greyish-ochreous, irregularly sprinkled with white and dark fuscous. The markings are cloudy, formed of dark golden-brown irroration mixed with dark fuscous. There are small spots at the base of the costa and dorsum and a dorsal suffusion from one-fourth to near the tornus. The stigmata are rather large, the plical somewhat beyond the first discal. There is a small undefined white costal spot before the middle and a broad undefined fascia from the costa beyond this to the tornus. The hindwings are whitish-grey.


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