''Eucryptogona trichobathra'' is a
moth in the family
Eriocottidae
Eriocottidae or Old World spiny-winged moths is a family of insects in the order Lepidoptera whose position relative to other members of the superfamily Tineoidea is currently unknown. There are two subfamilies, Compsocteninae and Eriocottinae.
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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 1901. It is found in the Australian state of
New South Wales.
The
wingspan is about 20 mm. The forewings are greyish fuscous, strongly mixed with ferruginous, reddish and black scales. The markings are blackish and obscure and there is a suffused streak beneath the costa, from the base to the middle, as well as a streak on the fold from the base to the cell and a spot at the end of the cell, a mark in the middle of the cell, a suffused spot on the inner margin near the base and an interrupted streak along the termen, edged posteriorly by fuscous reddish. The hindwings are fuscous.
[Lower, Oswald B. (1901)]
"Descriptions of new genera and species of Australian Lepidoptera"
''Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia''. 25 (2): 98.
References
Moths described in 1901
Eriocottidae
Moths of Australia
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