Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Elachista scitula is a moth of the Elachistidae family. It is found in Victoria.The wingspan is 7 mm for males and 6.8 mm for females. The forewings of the males are metallic blue basally with shiny dark bronzy brown scales distally. Females have similar forewings but have three bluish white markings. The hindwings of both sexes are dark grey. A moth is an insect closely related to the butterfly, both being of the order Lepidoptera. Moths form the majority of this order; there are thought to be 150,000 to 250,000 different species of moth (about ten times the number of species of butterfly), with thousands of species yet to be described.