Ardozyga phloeodes
Species of moth
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Ardozyga phloeodes is a species of moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1904. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Queensland.[1]
| Ardozyga phloeodes | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gelechiidae |
| Genus: | Ardozyga |
| Species: | A. phloeodes |
| Binomial name | |
| Ardozyga phloeodes (Meyrick, 1904) | |
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The wingspan is 19–21 mm (0.75–0.83 in). The forewings are white or whitish-fuscous mixed with white, irrorated with dark fuscous, and with all veins irregularly streaked with blackish-fuscous. The second discal stigma is dark fuscous surrounded with white. The hindwings are fuscous, darker posteriorly, especially in females, towards the base thinly scaled and whitish.[2]
