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Dotted Oak Knot-horn
Phycita roborella
Phycita roborella is a moth of the family Pyralidae. It is – under its junior synonym Tinea spissicella – the type species of its genus Phycita, and by extension of the subfamily Phycitinae.
It is found in Europe. The wingspan is 24–29 mm.The forewings are fuscous, mixed or tinged with reddish and sprinkled with grey whitish, more whitish-suffused towards dorsum between lines;
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 465844.