Hylograptis | |
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Gelechiidae |
Subfamily: | Dichomeridinae |
Genus: |
Hylograptis Meyrick, 1910 |
Species: | H. thryptica
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Binomial name | |
Hylograptis thryptica Meyrick, 1910
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Hylograptis is a monotypic moth genus in the family Gelechiidae. Its only species, Hylograptis thryptica, is found in Australia [1] and New Guinea, where it has been recorded from Woodlark Island and Sariba Island. [2] Both the genus and the species were first described by Edward Meyrick in 1910. [3]
The wingspan is 18–19 mm. The forewings are rather light brown with a dark purplish-fuscous streak along the costa from the base to near the apex, suffused beneath with indigo bluish. Beneath this is a deep ferruginous supra-median streak from the base to three-fourths, and a similar rather shorter submedian streak. The terminal fourth is more or less suffused with purplish and bluish, crossed by a slightly curved deep ferruginous transverse streak at about five-sixths, mixed with black at the costal extremity and on the lower half. The hindwings are dark fuscous. [4]