Diplogrypa

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]

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

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
  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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