Athrips zophochalca

Athrips zophochalca
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Athrips
Species: A. zophochalca
Binomial name
Athrips zophochalca
(Meyrick, 1918)
Synonyms
  • Epithectis zophochalca Meyrick, 1918
  • Epithectis transversella Hudson, 1939

Athrips zophochalca is a moth of the Gelechiidae family. It is found in New Zealand.[1]

The wingspan is about 9 mm. The forewings are glossy rather dark bronzy-fuscous. The stigmata are blackish, the plical obliquely before the first discal. There are small cloudy whitish spots on the costa before three-fourths and on the tornus slightly anterior to this. The hindwings are dark fuscous with a fine longitudinal hyaline line in the disc.[2]

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