''Allotropha'' is a

monotypic In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon. A monotypic species is one that does not include subspecies or smaller, infraspecific taxa. In the case of genera, the term "unisp ...

moth Moths are a group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not Butterfly, butterflies. They were previously classified as suborder Heterocera, but the group is Paraphyly, paraphyletic with respect to butterflies (s ...

genus in the family

Depressariidae Depressariidae is a family of moths. It was formerly treated as a subfamily of Gelechiidae, but is now recognised as a separate family, comprising about 2,300 species worldwide. Subfamilies Depressariidae consists of ten subfamilies: * Acriinae ...

described by

Alexey Diakonoff Alexey Nikolaievich Diakonoff (1 March 1907 – 20 September 1989), also transliterated as Alexej Nikolajewitsch Diakonoff, was a Russian–Dutch entomologist who specialised in Microlepidoptera. His parents immigrated to the Dutch East Indies ...

in 1954. Its only species, ''Allotropha percussana'' , was described by Francis Walker in 1864. It is found in

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, where it has been recorded from

Tasmania Tasmania (; palawa kani: ''Lutruwita'') is an island States and territories of Australia, state of Australia. It is located to the south of the Mainland Australia, Australian mainland, and is separated from it by the Bass Strait. The sta ...

. Adults are cupreous blackish, the forewings slightly rounded at the tips with some transverse cinereous (ash-grey) lines, a few of which are chalybeous (steel blue) hindward. The disc near the exterior border has extremely minute longitudinal cinereous streaks. The marginal dots are deep black, partly chalybeous bordered. The exterior border is slightly convex, moderately oblique. The hindwings have a pale cinereous fringe.''List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum'' 30: 998

References

Moths described in 1864 Hypertrophinae Monotypic moth genera {{Hypertrophinae-stub