Orophia Thesmophila
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''Orophia thesmophila'' 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 Depressariidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1930, and is known from
Mauritius Mauritius ( ; french: Maurice, link=no ; mfe, label=Mauritian Creole, Moris ), officially the Republic of Mauritius, is an island nation in the Indian Ocean about off the southeast coast of the African continent, east of Madagascar. It incl ...
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References

*Meyrick, E. (1930). "Microlepidoptera of Mauritius". ''Transactions of the Entomological Society of London''. 78 (2): 309–323. Moths described in 1930 Orophia {{Cryptolechiinae-stub