Agriophara cremnopis

Agriophara cremnopis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Depressariidae
Genus: Agriophara
Species: A. cremnopis
Binomial name
Agriophara cremnopis
Lower, 1894

Agriophara cremnopis is a moth in the Depressariidae family. It was described by Lower in 1894. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Queensland.[1]

The wingspan is about 26 mm. The forewings are black, with two fine irregular, hardly perceptible, blacker lines, anteriorly edged with a few whitish scales. There is a row of black dots from below the middle of the costa, continued in a curve around to the anal angle, the anterior three edged anteriorly somewhat with whitish. A row of very small whitish dots on the costa from the middle to the middle of hind-margin, obscured on the hindmargin. The hindwings are grey, suffused with pale fuscous posteriorly.[2]

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