Filatima biminimaculella

Filatima biminimaculella is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas.[1][2]

Filatima biminimaculella
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Filatima
Species:
F. biminimaculella
Binomial name
Filatima biminimaculella
(Chambers, 1880)
Synonyms
  • Gelechia biminimaculella Chambers, 1880
  • Fascista biminimaculella

Adults are similar to Filatima pseudacaciella, but are a little darker and lack the white dusting in the apical part of the wing. There is also a small ochreous spot on each side of the apex of the thorax. Otherwise, the species resemble closely being brown with a faint purplish hue, more or less distinctly streaked longitudinally, with ochreous within the costal margin.[3]

References
  1. Filatima at funet
  2. mothphotographersgroup
  3. J. Cincinnati Soc. nat. Hist. 2 (4) : 183
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