Eucryptogona trichobathra is a moth in the family Eriocottidae described by Oswald Bertram Lower in 1901.[1] It is found in the Australian state of New South Wales.
| Eucryptogona trichobathra | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Eriocottidae |
| Genus: | Eucryptogona |
| Species: | E. trichobathra
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| Binomial name | |
| Eucryptogona trichobathra Lower, 1901
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The wingspan is about 20 mm. The forewings are greyish fuscous, strongly mixed with ferruginous, reddish and black scales. The markings are blackish and obscure and there is a suffused streak beneath the costa, from the base to the middle, as well as a streak on the fold from the base to the cell and a spot at the end of the cell, a mark in the middle of the cell, a suffused spot on the inner margin near the base and an interrupted streak along the termen, edged posteriorly by fuscous reddish. The hindwings are fuscous.[2]
References edit
- ^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Eucryptogona trichobathra". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved 24 May 2018.
- ^ Lower, Oswald B. (1901). "Descriptions of new genera and species of Australian Lepidoptera". Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia. 25 (2): 98.
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