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Scythris farrata

species of insect

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionMay 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ14325661 ↗
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Scythris farrata is a moth of the family Scythrididae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1913. It is found in Mpumalanga, South Africa.

The wingspan is 12–13 mm. The forewings are whitish ochreous or greyish ochreous, more or less coarsely sprinkled with dark fuscous, the anterior half of the costa sometimes suffused with dark fuscous. The plical and second discal stigmata are rather large and dark fuscous, the plical connected with the dorsum by a slightly oblique bar of dark fuscous suffusion. The hindwings are grey.

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Editorial reviewUseful for establishing the present vocabulary of the subject while preserving a route back to the evidence on which that vocabulary rests. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1913—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Scythris, farrata and species can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Scythris farrata” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.