Nephogenes melanoptila

Trachypepla melanoptila
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Oecophoridae
Subfamily: Oecophorinae
Genus: Nephogenes
Species: N. melanoptila
Binomial name
Nephogenes melanoptila
(Meyrick, 1883)
Synonyms
  • Trachypepla melanoptila Meyrick, 1915
  • Eulechria dochmotypa Turner, 1938

Nephogenes melanoptila is a species of moth in the Oecophoridae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1883.[1] It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Queensland and New South Wales.[2]

The wingspan is 14-18 mm. The forewings are light fuscous-grey, with scattered grey-whitish scales, and sometimes a few black scales. There is a raised blackish tuft in the disc before the middle, and a second obliquely beyond it on the fold, sometimes connected with the margins by a few raised black scales. An irregular line of raised black scales is found from three-fifths of the costa to the anal angle, more strongly marked in the disc. There are also a few black scales forming a carved transverse line towards the hindmargin. The hindwings are fuscous-grey.

The larvae possibly feed on Kunzea capitata.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Beccaloni, G.W., Scoble, M.J., Robinson, G.S. & Pitkin, B. (Editors). (2003) The Global Lepidoptera Names Index (LepIndex). (Accessed March 2013).
  2. ↑ Nephogenes at funet
  3. ↑ Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 8 (3) (3): 370
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