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Stachyneura sceliphrodes

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Stachyneura sceliphrodes
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S. sceliphrodes
Binomial name
Stachyneura sceliphrodes
(Meyrick, 1925)
Synonyms
  • Cryptophasa sceliphrodes Meyrick, 1925

Stachyneura sceliphrodes is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae. It was described by Meyrick in 1925. It is found in Queensland, Irian Jaya and Papua New Guinea.[1][2]

The wingspan is 35–40 mm. The forewings are pale greyish-ochreous with snow-white reflections, the veins white sprinkled dark red-brown or sometimes suffused reddish, a snow-white costal streak broad at the base and narrowed to a point at about three-fourths. The cell and dorsal area are more or less suffused reddish or brown, with thick oblique streaks of blackish or dark red-brown irroration from the dorsum at one-third and beyond the middle, and a spot towards the tornus, the spaces between these sometimes suffused white. There is a terminal series of blackish or dark red-brown triangular dots. The hindwings are light greyish-ochreous.[3]

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