Encolapta

Encolapta is a genus of moth in the family Gelechiidae.[1] It contains only one species, Encolapta metorcha, which is found in Sri Lanka.[2]

Encolapta
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Subfamily: Anacampsinae
Genus: Encolapta
Meyrick, 1913
Species:
E. metorcha
Binomial name
Encolapta metorcha
Meyrick, 1913

The wingspan is 14–15 mm. The forewings are grey or fuscous irrorated with white, with some scattered blackish scales and with a series of small blackish spots along the costa, one in the middle rather larger and elongate. There are some irregular scattered groups of dark fuscous scales in the disc, as well as a pre-marginal series of cloudy dark fuscous spots around the posterior part of the costa and termen. The hindwings are grey, paler and thinly scaled anteriorly and with the veins and termen darker.[3]

References

  1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Encolapta". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 23, 2018.
  2. Encolapta at funet
  3. J. Bombay nat. hist. Soc. 22 (1): 167 Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.


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