''Idiophantis hemiphaea'' is a

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of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1907. It is found in

Assam Assam (; ) is a state in northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of . The state is bordered by Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh to the north; Nagaland and Manipur ...

, India. The

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is 13–16 mm. The forewings are pale ochreous, the costal half from the base to the posterior streaks are suffused with rather dark fuscous, darkest towards the base. There are two fine oblique whitish posteriorly black-edged streaks, the first meeting a very undefined erect line of pale bronzy-metallic and blackish scales from the dorsum before the tornal prominence, the second running into the apex. The tornal prominence beyond this line is suffused with coppery metallic on the margins. There is a black dot at the base of the excavation. The hindwings are grey.''Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society''. 18 (1): 149.

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Moths described in 1907 Idiophantis Taxa named by Edward Meyrick {{Anacampsini-stub