Garrha rufa

Garrha rufa 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.[2]

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

The wingspan is 15–18 mm. The forewings are deep reddish-ochreous or reddish-ochreous-brown, with scattered lighter ochreous scales. The costa is very narrowly carmine-pink and the tips of the scales are ochreous-whitish. The discal dots are obsolete, but there are some blackish-grey scales at the base, a small blackish-grey spot on the costa before the middle, tending to form a connected streak with a smaller cloudy blackish-grey spot in the disc at one-fourth from the base, and another on the fold somewhat nearer the base. There is an elongate cloudy blackish-grey blotch along the inner margin from one-third to three-fourth and a blackish-grey cloudy streak from four-fifth of costa to two-third of the inner margin, dilated on the costa into a small spot, whence proceeds a transverse slightly curved row of indistinct blackish-grey dots to the inner margin before the anal angle. There is a row of indistinct dark grey dots along the hindmargin and the apical fifth of the costa. The hindwings are ochreous-grey, the costa and base more whitish-ochreous.[3]

References

1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Garrha rufa". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 24, 2018.
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3. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 7 (4) : 504