''Scythris brachyplecta'' is a
moth of the family
Scythrididae. It was described by
Edward Meyrick in 1928. It is found in
KwaZulu-Natal
KwaZulu-Natal (, also referred to as KZN and known as "the garden province") is a province of South Africa that was created in 1994 when the Zulu bantustan of KwaZulu ("Place of the Zulu" in Zulu) and Natal Province were merged. It is locate ...
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South Africa.
The
wingspan is about 19 mm. The forewings are white (overlying light grey), irregularly sprinkled with fuscous and with an oblique streak of dark fuscous irroration from the dorsum at one-fourth, reaching half across the wing. There is a short oblique dark fuscous mark from the second discal stigma to the termen. The hindwings are blue-grey-whitish.
Exot. Microlep. 3 (13): 412
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References
Endemic moths of South Africa
brachyplecta
Moths described in 1928
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