Agriophara cremnopis

Agriophara cremnopis is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Oswald Bertram Lower in 1894. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Queensland.[1]

Agriophara cremnopis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Depressariidae
Genus: Agriophara
Species:
A. cremnopis
Binomial name
Agriophara cremnopis
Lower, 1894

The wingspan is about 26 mm. The forewings are black, with two fine irregular, hardly perceptible, blacker lines, anteriorly edged with a few whitish scales. There is a row of black dots from below the middle of the costa, continued in a curve around to the anal angle, the anterior three edged anteriorly somewhat with whitish. A row of very small whitish dots on the costa from the middle to the middle of hindmargin, obscured on the hindmargin. The hindwings are grey, suffused with pale fuscous posteriorly.[2]

References

  1. Agriophara Archived 2016-06-03 at the Wayback Machine at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms.
  2. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 18: 93


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