Exoteleia ithycosma
Exoteleia ithycosma is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in Guyana.[1]
| Exoteleia ithycosma | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gelechiidae |
| Genus: | Exoteleia |
| Species: | E. ithycosma |
| Binomial name | |
| Exoteleia ithycosma (Meyrick, 1914) | |
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The wingspan is about 10 mm. The forewings are dark fuscous with four blue-leaden-metallic transverse streaks, the first towards the base, rather thick, the second beyond one-third, slender, white on the costa, the third beyond the middle, not reaching the costa, interrupted below the middle, the fourth submarginal, slightly sinuate inwards below the middle. There is a white dot on the costa before two-thirds, edged beneath by a leaden-metallic dot, where a fine straight pale brownish line runs to the dorsum at three-fourths. There is a slender pale brownish streak along the termen. The hindwings are dark fuscous.[2]
References
- Exoteleia at funet
- Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 1914 : 267
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