Agriophara tephroptera is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Oswald Bertram Lower in 1903. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from New South Wales.[1]
| Agriophara tephroptera | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Depressariidae |
| Genus: | Agriophara |
| Species: | A. tephroptera
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| Binomial name | |
| Agriophara tephroptera Lower, 1903
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The wingspan is about 28 mm. The forewings are cinereous-grey with the extreme costal edge white from one-third to the apex, more pronounced beneath. There are four rather oblique outwards curved series of transverse fuscous marks, the first from one-fourth of the costa to one-fourth of the dorsum, the second from the costa at about one-third to about the middle of the dorsum, the third from the costa at three-fifths to the anal angle and the fourth more strongly curved and better developed, from the costa at three-fourths to the anal angle and there meeting the third. There is an interrupted blackish line along the termen. The hindwings are pale ochreous-whitish, somewhat fuscous tinged.[2]
References
edit- ^ Agriophara Archived 2016-06-03 at the Wayback Machine at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms.
- ^ Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 27: 230
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