Battaristis coniosema

Battaristis coniosema is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1922. It is found in Peru and Pará, Brazil.[1]

Battaristis coniosema
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Battaristis
Species:
B. coniosema
Binomial name
Battaristis coniosema
Meyrick, 1922

The wingspan is 9–10 mm. The forewings are grey with the costal area broadly suffused with white on the anterior half and a thick black upcurved streak from towards the dorsum at one-third to the disc at three-fifths, the posterior half edged above by a suffused white streak extended nearly to the angle of the subterminal line, and marked above by a black dot representing the second discal stigma. There is a bronzy-blackish streak along the costa from two-fifths to the apex, anteriorly acute, cut by very oblique fine white lines at middle and two-thirds, the latter (subterminal line) continued to the termen where it forms a very acute angular projection including a black strigula, and then towards the dorsum before the tornus but not reaching it. The area between the costal and discal streaks suffused whitish and tinged brown. A dark grey white-speckled sub-oblique streak runs from the costa at five-sixths to the projection of the subterminal line. The hindwings are dark fuscous.[2]

References

  1. Savela, Markku (December 31, 2018). "Battaristis coniosema Meyrick, 1922". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 18, 2020.
  2. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. 1922: 74. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
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