Phthorimaea urosema
| Phthorimaea urosema | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gelechiidae |
| Genus: | Phthorimaea |
| Species: | P. urosema
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| Binomial name | |
| Phthorimaea urosema Meyrick, 1917
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| Synonyms | |
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Gnorimoschema urosema[1] | |
Phthorimaea urosema is a moth in the family Gelechiidae.[2] It was originally described from one adult male specimen from Peru.
The wingspan is about 14 mm. The forewings are greyish-ochreous, somewhat sprinkled irregularly with dark grey, the costa suffused with dark grey irroration and with three or four cloudy blackish-grey dots towards the base on the dorsal half. There is an oblique transverse patch of ochreous-whitish suffusion from the costa towards the base, followed on the costa by a small blackish spot and in the disc by an elongate blotch of blackish suffusion. The stigmata are blackish, surrounded by irregular ochreous-whitish suffusion, the plical obliquely before the first discal, a blotch of blackish suffusion in the middle of the disc lying between and beneath the discal stigmata. There are three small ochreous-whitish spots on the costa towards the apex, interrupting the dark grey irroration. The hindwings are slaty-grey.[3]
References[edit]
- ^ Becker, V.O. 1984: Gelechiidae. Pp. 44-52 in Heppner, J.B. (ed.), Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera: Checklist: Part I Micropterigoidea — Immoidea. Springer, Netherlands. doi:10.1007/978-94-009-6533-1 [See p. 46]
- ^ funet.fi
- ^ Meyrick, E. 1917: Descriptions of South American micro-Lepidoptera. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, [65(1)]: 1-52. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2311.1917.tb01401.x BHL [See p. 43]
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- Povolný, D. 1990: Gnorimoschemini of Peru and Bolivia (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae). Steenstrupia, 16: 153–223. [Not seen]