''Epibrontis hemichlaena'' is a
moth in the family
Gelechiidae described by
Oswald Bertram Lower
Oswald Bertram Lower (1863 in Adelaide, South Australia – 18 March 1925 in Wayville, South Australia) was an Australian chemist and pharmacist who is best known for his contributions to entomology, in particular butterflies and moths. His colle ...
in 1897. It is found in
Australia
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, where it has been recorded from
Queensland,
New South Wales,
Victoria, the
Australian Capital Territory,
South Australia,
Western Australia, and
Tasmania.
The
wingspan is . The forewings are white, irrorated (sprinkled) with brown on the posterior half and two short very oblique dark fuscous marks from the costa before and beyond the middle, and a third at three-fourths stronger and continued to the apex. There is a semi-oval fuscous blotch, mixed with dark fuscous, extending along the dorsum from the base to three-fourths, reaching more than halfway across the wing. There is sometimes a fine dark fuscous longitudinal dash in the disc beyond the middle and there is some dark fuscous suffusion towards the tornus. The hindwings are whitish fuscous, becoming fuscous posteriorly.
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References
Gelechiinae
Moths described in 1897
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