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Istrianis epacria

Synonyms: Aristotelia epacria; Neotelphusa epacria

Wikipedia Abstract

Aristotelia epacria is a moth of the Gelechiidae family. It was described by Bradley in 1965. It is found in Uganda. The wingspan is 16-19 mm. The forewings are white, variably suffused, in places strongly, with greyish fuscous and with blackish markings. There is a small blackish patch at the base of the costa, a narrow outward-oblique somewhat diffuse blackish fascia from the costa at one-sixth, terminating before the inner margin and followed distally by a whitish area very weakly suffused with fuscous. A wedge-shaped blackish patch is found on the costa at about one-third, contiguous with a small spot of somewhat roughened black scales at about one-third across the wing, a similar spot diagonally beyond this near the middle of the wing, a little below and slightly basad of which is an
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0