Phaeotypa

Phaeotypa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Gelechiidae
Genus:	Phaeotypa; Turner, 1944
Species:	P. stenochorda
Binomial name
	Phaeotypa stenochorda; (Turner, 1933)
Synonyms
	Lophozancla Turner, 1933 (preocc. Turner, 1932); Lophozancla stenochorda Turner, 1933;

Phaeotypa is a genus of moth in the family Gelechiidae. It contains the species Phaeotypa stenochorda, which is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Queensland.^[1]

The wingspan is 19–21 mm. The forewings are brown-whitish sprinkled and suffused with fuscous-brown and with fuscous dots on the costa at the base, one-fifth, the middle, and three or four between this and the apex. There is a narrow fuscous-brown bar from the base along the fold to two-fifths and two suffused fuscous-brown spots beneath the costa beyond the middle, and a third at the apex, these may be confluent. The hindwings are pale grey.^[2]

References[]

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[1] unet.fi

[2] Trans. Proc. R. Soc. S. Austr. 57 : 175

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