Eridachtha phaeocrossis Meyrick, 1937

Eridachtha phaeocrossis Meyrick, 1937: 96 . TL: Transvaal, South Africa. [TMSA].

Atrichozancla phaeocrossis; Janse 1954: 369; Park et al. 2021: 356.

Material examined. South Africa: 1♂ (holotype, type no. 571), Mpumalanga, Pilgrims Rest, Skea, xii [19]20, Coll. Janse, in TMSA. Paratypes 3♂: Type nos. 572 and 573, gen. slide no. 3737, in TMSA, NHMUK .

Diagnosis. Wingspan 13.0–14.0 mm. The head, antenna, labial palpus are straw yellow but the forewing ground colour is buffy brown. This species is characterized by the forewing vein R 3, which is separated from R 4+5 (R 4 stalked with R 5 from beyond 2/3), the roughly scaled 2 nd segment of the labial palpus (with tufts above and below), and the 3 rd segment which is longer than the 2 nd segment, needle-like, nearly straight.

Male genitalia. See Janse (1954: Pl. 152, fig. 5; Pl. 157, fig. 6). Janse (1954) noted that the male genitalia resemble those of E. cosymbota Meyrick but differ from the latter by the aedeagus which possesses a pair of small, triangular processes on the upper side near the apex.

Female unknown.

Distribution. South Africa (Mpumalanga).