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).

Published as part of Park, Kyu-Tek, Minet, Joël, Koo, Jun-Mo & Yu, Tae-Uk, 2024, Review of the Afrotropical members of the genus Eridachtha Meyrick, 1910 (Lepidoptera: Lecithoceridae: Lecithocerinae), with descriptions of 12 new species, pp. 275-307 in Zootaxa 5468 (2) on page 282, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5468.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/11615739