Batrachedra sterilis

Batrachedra sterilis is a species of moth of the family Batrachedridae. It is found in Australia.

Batrachedra sterilis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Batrachedridae
Genus: Batrachedra
Species:
B. sterilis
Binomial name
Batrachedra sterilis
Meyrick, 1897

Original description

Male, Female 10-14 mm. Head ochreous-white. Palpi white, median and subapical bands on second joint and sometimes a median ring on terminal black, scale-projection distinct. Antennae whitish-ochreous, ringed with dark fuscous Thorax ochreous-whitish, sprinkled with dark fuscous. Abdomen grey-whitish. Legs ochreous-whitish, banded with dark fuscous. Forewings whitish, irrorated with dark fuscous, more densely toward dorsum; plical stigma linear, first discal seldom defined, second dot-like, sometimes connected with first by a slender streak, and two oblique costal striguae before apex blackish, all sometimes partially obsolete or obscured by the dark irroration; cilia above apex whitish with a blackish median line, beneath whitish-fuscous. Hindwings grey; cilia whitish-fuscous. Sydney, New South Wales; Mount Macedon, Victoria; Launceston and Hobart, Tasmania; September to February, twenty-two specimens.

— Edward Meyrick


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