''Eriogenes cossoides'' is a

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 ...

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 ...

. It was described by

Arthur Gardiner Butler Arthur Gardiner Butler F.L.S., F.Z.S. (27 June 1844 – 28 May 1925) was an English entomologist, arachnologist and ornithologist. He worked at the British Museum on the taxonomy of birds, insects, and spiders. Biography Arthur Gardiner B ...

in 1882. It is found on the

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and Duke of York Island and in

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on mainland

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. The

wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the opposite wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–200 has a wingspan of , and a wandering albatross (''Diomedea exulans'') caught in 1965 had a wingsp ...

is 29–31 mm. The forewings are silvery white, with the basal two-fifths more or less clouded with red brown, the outer margin of the red-brown area inarched. There is an indistinct curved stripe of the same colour crossing the wing immediately beyond the cell and the costal margin and external border are also red brown. The hindwings are smoky grey, with a white-tipped fringe.''Annals and Magazine of Natural History'' (5) 10 (57): 229

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Moths described in 1882 Eriogenes {{Stenomatinae-stub