Scythris Farrata
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''Scythris farrata'' is a moth of the family Scythrididae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1913. It is found in
Mpumalanga Mpumalanga () is a province of South Africa. The name means "East", or literally "The Place Where the Sun Rises" in the Swazi, Xhosa, Ndebele and Zulu languages. Mpumalanga lies in eastern South Africa, bordering Eswatini and Mozambique. It ...
, South Africa. The wingspan is 12–13 mm. The forewings are whitish ochreous or greyish ochreous, more or less coarsely sprinkled with dark fuscous, the anterior half of the costa sometimes suffused with dark fuscous. The plical and second discal stigmata are rather large and dark fuscous, the plical connected with the dorsum by a slightly oblique bar of dark fuscous suffusion. The hindwings are grey.''Annals of the Transvaal Museum'' 3 (4): 312


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Endemic moths of South Africa farrata Moths described in 1913 {{Scythrididae-stub