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Epichostis elephantias

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edged with whitish ochreous, reaching the costal streak (the outline of these blotches somewhat suggestive of that of an elephant), the first extending on the dorsum from near the base to two-fifths, the second from the middle to near the tornus. There is a dark fuscous terminal line interrupted by whitish-ochreous dots on the veins. The hindwings are rather dark grey.
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is 15–16 mm (0.59–0.63 in). The forewings are pale silvery fuscous with a moderately broad whitish-ochreous costal streak from the base to near the apex, pointed posteriorly, suffused with ochreous yellow towards the costa. There are two dark fuscous irregular rounded-oblong dorsal blotches
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Scientific classification
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Eukaryota
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Xyloryctidae
Epichostis
Binomial name
Meyrick
moth
Xyloryctidae
Edward Meyrick
Sri Lanka
wingspan
"Epichostis elephantias Meyrick, 1906"
"Descriptions of Indian Microlepidoptera, part II"
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Taxon identifiers
Wikidata
Q13609373
Wikispecies
Epichostis elephantias
EoL
941034
GBIF
1835543
IRMNG
10607217

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