Garrha leucerythra

Garrha leucerythra is a moth in the family Oecophoridae. It was described by Meyrick in 1883.[1] It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from New South Wales and Tasmania.[2]

Garrha leucerythra
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Oecophoridae
Genus:
Garrha
Species:
G. leucerythra
Binomial name
Garrha leucerythra
(Meyrick, 1883)
Synonyms
  • Hoplitica leucerythra Meyrick, 1883

The wingspan is 18.5–21 mm. The forewings are pale pinkish-ochreous, sometimes rather strongly pinkish and the costa narrowly carmine-pink with the tips of the scales whitish. There is a dark fuscous dot in the disc before the middle, a second, slightly larger, in the disc beyond the middle, and a third obliquely beyond the first on the fold. Sometimes, there is a short obsolete oblique row of three grey dots from costa at two-fifth, and occasionally two or three ether scattered dark scales towards the base. There is an ill-defined, often almost obsolete, transverse row of irregular dark fuscous dots, from the middle of the costa very obliquely outwards to the disc at five-sixth, then sharply bent and nearly parallel to the hindmargin, ending on the inner margin before the anal angle. The hindwings are whitish, posteriorly faintly tinged with ochreous-grey.[3]

References
  1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Garrha leucerythra". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 24, 2018.
  2. Garrha at funet
  3. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 7 (4) : 501


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