Batrachedra volucris
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Batrachedridae |
| Genus: | Batrachedra |
| Species: | B. volucris
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| Binomial name | |
| Batrachedra volucris Meyrick, 1897
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Batrachedra volucris is a species of moth of the family Batrachedridae. It is found in Australia.
Original description[]
Male, Female 14-15 mm. Head, thorax, and abdomen whitish-fuscous. Palpi whitish-fuscous, irrorated with dark fuscous, scale-projection distinct. Antennae whitish-fuscous, indistinctly darker-ringed. Legs dark fuscous, irrorated and ringed with whitish-fuscous. Forewings light fuscous, sprinkled with dark fuscous, and with a few whitish scales; plical and first and second discal stigmata small, blackish ; a blackish apical dot; cilia whitish-fuscous. Hindwings light grey; cilia whitish fuscous. Sydney, New South Wales; in October and March, two specimens.
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Categories:
- Batrachedridae
- Moths of Australia
- Moths described in 1897
- Taxa named by Edward Meyrick
- Batrachedridae stubs