Athrips zophochalca

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

Athrips zophochalca
Illustration of male
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
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

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]

References
  1. Athrips at funet
  2. Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand 1868-1961; Volume 50, 1918
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