Mimozela rhoditis

Mimozela rhoditis is a moth in the Depressariidae family, and the only species in the genus Mimozela. It was described by Meyrick in 1914 and is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Queensland.^[1]

The wingspan is 14–19 mm. The forewings are ochreous-brown with spots of blackish suffusion on the costa near the base and at one-fourth, the latter followed by a white patch suffused with rosy, from which a streak runs to the termen beneath the apex. There is a slender rosy-white streak from the costa at two-thirds running into the apex of this. The stigmata are dark ferruginous-brown, the plical beneath the first discal, the second discal transverse, edged with rosy-white. The basal and discal areas are irregularly suffused and marked with white and pale rosy, and sprinkled with blackish and the veins between the cell and termen are more or less streaked with pale rosy, the interspaces marked towards the termen with a series of suffused blackish-grey marks irregularly surrounded with white. The hindwings are dark grey.^[2]

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