Filatima spinigera

Filatima spinigera is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from California.[1][2]

Filatima spinigera
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Filatima
Species:
F. spinigera
Binomial name
Filatima spinigera
Clarke, 1947

The wingspan is 20–22 mm. The forewings are sordid white to cinereous variously irrorated and marked with fuscous and overlaid with fuscous on the costa, to apical third rather strongly, but narrowly. A poorly defined white spot is found at the apical third and is preceded by a small, fuscous blotch. There is a row of indistinct, small fuscous spots around the apex and along the termen, terminated, slightly before the tornus, by an ill-defined, fuscous, outwardly oblique dash confluent with the discal spot at the end of the cell. A small fuscous spot is found in the center of the cell and both discal cell spots are preceded and followed by light yellowish brown scales. The hindwings are shining silvery white.[3]

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