Spaniophylla
| Spaniophylla | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Yponomeutidae |
| Subfamily: | Yponomeutinae |
| Genus: | Spaniophylla Turner, 1917 |
| Type species | |
| Spaniophylla epiclithra Turner, 1917
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Spaniophylla is a monotypic genus of moths of the family Yponomeutidae. The type and only species in the genus is Spaniophylla epiclithra Turner, 1917. It is found in Australia. It is placed incertae sedis within Yponomeutoidea.[1]
Description
Spaniophylla epiclithra is described by Turner as follows:[2]
♂ ♀ 10–11 mm. Head white. Palpi white; second joint grey externally except at apex. Antennæ white, apical ⅔ dark-fuscous; ciliations in ♂ 1. Thorax white. Abdomen pale-grey. Legs white; anterior tarsi fuscous; middle and posterior annulated with fuscous. Forewings moderate, costa gently arched, apex round-pointed, termen straight, oblique; white, but with most of posterior half of disc suffused with brownish-grey; costal edge near base fuscous; a fuscous subcostal dot near base, a second beneath that at ⅓, and a third between centre of disc and tornus; a broad ochreous bar with rounded ends in middle of disc between ¼ and centre; cilia brownish-grey. Hindwings and cilia grey.
References
- ^ Lewis, Jon A.; Sohn, Jae-Cheon (2015). "Genera incertae sedis". In Landry, Bernard (ed.). Lepidoptera: Yponomeutoidea I (Argyresthiidae, Attevidae, Praydidae, Scythropiidae, and Yponomeutidae). World Catalogue of Insects, Volume: 12. Brill. pp. 155–160. doi:10.1163/9789004264267_004. ISBN 978-90-04-26426-7. Retrieved 2026-01-05.
- ^ Turner, Alfred Jefferis (1917). "Lepidopterological Gleanings". The Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland. 29: 89. doi:10.5962/p.351432. ISSN 0080-469X.
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