Diplogrypa

Diplogrypa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Oecophoridae
Genus:	Diplogrypa; Common, 1997
Species:	D. microptera
Binomial name
	Diplogrypa microptera; (Turner, 1916)
Synonyms
	Machimia microptera Turner, 1916;

Diplogrypa is a genus of moths of the family Oecophoridae erected by Ian Francis Bell Common in 1997. It contains only one species, Diplogrypa microptera which was first described by Turner in 1916^[1] and is found Australia, where it has been recorded from Queensland.^[2]

The wingspan is 12–14 mm. The forewings are pale fuscous, sparsely sprinkled with fuscous and with a discal dot at two-fifths, a second beneath it on the fold and a third at three-fifths. The hindwings are ochreous whitish, at the apex tinged with fuscous.^[3]

References[]

^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Microptera group microptera". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved 22 May 2018.
^ Savela, Markku, ed. (31 December 2013). "Diplogrypa Common, 1997". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved 12 September 2020.
^ Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 41 (2): 372.

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[nhm-1] Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Microptera group microptera". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved 22 May 2018.

[2] Savela, Markku, ed. (31 December 2013). "Diplogrypa Common, 1997". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved 12 September 2020.

[3] Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 41 (2): 372.

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