Stachyneura sceliphrodes
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Xyloryctidae |
| Genus: | Stachyneura |
| Species: | S. sceliphrodes
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| Stachyneura sceliphrodes (Meyrick, 1925)
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Stachyneura sceliphrodes is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1925. It is found in Queensland, Western New Guinea and Papua New Guinea.[1][2]
The wingspan is 35–40 mm. The forewings are pale greyish ochreous with snow-white reflections, the veins are white sprinkled with dark red brown or sometimes suffused with reddish. There is 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 with reddish or brown, with thick oblique streaks of blackish or dark red-brown sprinkles from the dorsum at one-third and beyond the middle, and a spot towards the tornus, the spaces between these sometimes suffused with white. There is a terminal series of blackish or dark red-brown triangular dots. The hindwings are light greyish ochreous.[3]
References[edit]
- ^ Savela, Markku, ed. (December 15, 2013). "Stachyneura sceliphrodes (Meyrick, 1925)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved September 10, 2020.
- ^ McMillan, Ian (2 July 2010). "Stachyneura". Xyloryctine Moths of Australia. Retrieved 10 September 2020.
- ^ Exotic Microlepidoptera. 3 (5-7): 150.
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