''Choreutis dryodora'' is a species of

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

Choreutidae Choreutidae, or metalmark moths, are a family of insects in the lepidopteran order whose relationships have been long disputed. It was placed previously in the superfamily Yponomeutoidea in family Glyphipterigidae and in superfamily Sesioide ...

. It is found in

Mozambique Mozambique (), officially the Republic of Mozambique ( pt, Moçambique or , ; ny, Mozambiki; sw, Msumbiji; ts, Muzambhiki), is a country located in southeastern Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi ...

. The

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is about 10 mm. The forewings are ochreous-brown, or reddish-brown, slightly speckled here and there with whitish and with two indistinct lines of whitish irroration from white dots on the costa, the first at one-third, nearly straight, rather irregular, preceded by a suffused dark fuscous fascia extended by suffusion along the margins to the base, the second from the costa at three-fifths very obliquely outwards for one-third of the breadth, then rectangularly angulated and irregularly dentate to the dorsum at two-thirds, preceded by a broad irregular dark fuscous fascia extended on the costa and dorsum to the first line, and partially slenderly edged posteriorly with dark fuscous. There is some scattered dark fuscous or blackish irroration towards the apex and tornus. The hindwings are dark grey.Meyrick E. 1921b. Descriptions of South African Micro-Lepidoptera. - Annals of the Transvaal Museum 8(2):49–148: p. 111
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References

Endemic fauna of Mozambique Moths described in 1921 Choreutis Lepidoptera of Mozambique Moths of Sub-Saharan Africa {{choreutidae-stub