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Epiphractis aulica

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Epiphractis aulica
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E. aulica
Binomial name
Epiphractis aulica
Meyrick, 1912

Epiphractis aulica is a moth of the Oecophoridae family. This species was described from South Africa.[1]

The wingspan is about 18 mm. The head and palpi are purplish-rosy sprinkled with whitish points and the face is whitish. The thorax is light ochreous-yellow, with the abdomen grey. The forewings are elongate, the costa moderately arched, ferruginous suffused with purplish-rosy and with an elongate light ochreous-yellow patch extending along the dorsum from the base to beyond the middle and reaching to the fold. The hindwings are grey, somewhat darker posteriorly.[2]

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