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''Scythris aquaria'' is a moth of the family Scythrididae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1913. It is found in South Africa ( Gauteng,
Mpumalanga Mpumalanga () is a province of South Africa. The name means "East", or literally "The Place Where the Sun Rises" in the Swazi, Xhosa, Ndebele and Zulu languages. Mpumalanga lies in eastern South Africa, bordering Eswatini and Mozambique. It ...
), Namibia and Mozambique. The wingspan is about 12 mm. The forewings are fuscous with a suffused white streak along the costa from one-fourth to the apex, with short suffused lines on the veins running into it. There is a strong white median streak from the base to beyond the middle, where it divides into several branches along the veins, and very faintly split along the fold. Suffused white sub-dorsal and dorsal lines run from the base to the tornus. The hindwings are dark grey.''Annals of the Transvaal Museum'' 3 (4): 313
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aquaria Moths described in 1913 {{Scythrididae-stub