''Barchaniella inspersus'' 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 Cossidae. It was described by Hugo Theodor Christoph in 1887. It is found in

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Kazakhstan Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country located mainly in Central Asia and partly in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the north and west, China to the east, Kyrgyzstan to the southeast, Uzbeki ...

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, north-western

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and south-western

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. The length of the forewings is 12–16 mm for males and 13–17 mm for females. Adults are on wing from April to August. The larvae live inside the trunks of ''

Haloxylon ''Haloxylon'' is a genus of shrubs or small trees, belonging to the plant family (biology), family Amaranthaceae. ''Haloxylon'' and its species are known by the common name saxaul. According to Dmitry Ushakov, the name borrowed from the Kazakh lan ...

'' species, in which they overwinter twice.Ревизия древоточцев рода Holcocerus Staudinger, 1884 (s. l.)
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References

Cossinae genus list
at ''Butterflies and Moths of the World'' of the Natural History Museum, London Cossinae Moths described in 1882 Moths of Asia {{Cossinae-stub