Epicephala bathrobaphes Turner, 1947

Prins, Jurate De, Hartley, Diana, Sruoga, Virginijus, Nicholls, James, Wallace, Jesse & Zwick, Andreas, 2025, Diversity of Australian Ornixolinae (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae) with taxonomic and nomenclatural acts within the related taxa (Acrocercopinae and Gracillariinae) based on the evidence of museomics, bionomics, and mitogenomics, Zootaxa 5616 (1), pp. 1-340 : 147-148

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scientific name	Epicephala bathrobaphes Turner, 1947
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Epicephala bathrobaphes Turner, 1947 View in CoL

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“ Epicephala bathrobaphes n. sp. ”—Turner, A.J., 1947. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 57 (1945) (7): 72. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49510245

Epicephala bathrobaphes View in CoL — Turner 1947: 72; Nielsen & Kumata 1996: 48; De Prins & De Prins 2005: 178.

Type locality: [ Australia], Queensland, Toowoomba .

Type specimen: Holotype ♂, in NKU ( Tianjin).Specimens examined: Holotype ♂ [1]‘ Toowoomba , Q.[ueensland]/ 21 November 1925 /W. B. Barnard’; [2] ‘ HOLOTYPE / Epicephala / bathrobaphes Turn. ’; [3] ‘ Epicephala TYPE/ bathrobaphes Turn. ’ [4] ‘ ANIC Database No/31 010795’; [5] ‘AUST.NAT/INS.COLL’, in NKU ( Tianjin).

Note: The holotype ♂ currently on loan in Nankai University , China .

Morphological diagnostic characterisation: Wingspan ca. 8.0 mm; length of the forewing 5.4 mm.

Head: vertex white, covered with snowy white long, pressed piliform scales, vertex with two tufts of white posteriorly directed scales, antenna slightly longer than forewing, dark brown, scape enlarged, slightly lighter shading brown. Thorax ( Fig. 293): dirty white, tegula light brown, concolourous with the ground colour of forewing. Forewing pattern with long diagnostical two base streaks, costal margin with one long oblique strigula in sub-apical area, two small triangular costal strigulae at apical sector; dorsal margin of forewing with narrowing dirty white stripe, the first long, oblique strigula at 1/2 of dorsum, the second at 3/4 of dorsal margin, both oblique long strigulae are edged with black scales, the third dorsal strigula is at sub-apical sector meeting the opposite costal strigula at mid of forewing; the apical dorsal strigula is fused with costal strigula in a narrow fine apical bow; apical spot black, round, situated in the dotted apical area; apical line is fine and clearly defined, continuous, fringe line dark fuscous, continuous. Hindwings very narrow, sharply pointed, significantly darker, what might indicate the sexual dimorphism within this species. Legs light fuscous.

Abdomen ( Fig. 293): dorsally tergites ochreous fuscous, matte, terminal genital segments dirty white.

Male genitalia: No data.

Female genitalia: No data.

Bionomics: No data.

BOLD data: No data.

GenBank data: No data.

Mitogenomic data: No data.

Distribution: Australia: Queensland ( Turner 1947: 72).