''Scrobipalpula ephoria'' is a

moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of ...

in the family

Gelechiidae The Gelechiidae are a family of moths commonly referred to as twirler moths or gelechiid moths. They are the namesake family of the huge and little-studied superfamily Gelechioidea, and the family's taxonomy has been subject to considerable d ...

. It was described by

Edward Meyrick Edward Meyrick (25 November 1854, in Ramsbury – 31 March 1938, at Thornhanger, Marlborough) was an English schoolmaster and amateur entomologist. He was an expert on microlepidoptera and some consider him one of the founders of modern m ...

in 1917. It is found in

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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 other wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–200 has a wingspan of , and a wandering albatross (''Diomedea exulans'') caught in 1965 had a wingspan ...

is about 9 mm. The forewings are grey sprinkled with whitish and dark fuscous and with a very oblique blackish mark on the fold near the base. There is an oblique dark fuscous bar from the costa at one-third, terminated by a blackish mark on the fold edged beneath with ochreous. The discal stigmata are blackish, edged beneath with ochreous, the first beyond the plical. There are some blackish scales above the tornus and at the apex. The hindwings are light bluish grey.''Transactions of the Entomological Society of London''. 1917 (1): 36.

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Scrobipalpula Moths described in 1917 {{Scrobipalpula-stub