Locharcha

Locharcha is a genus of moths in the family Gelechiidae. It contains the species Locharcha emicans, which is found in Peru.[1]

Locharcha
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Subfamily: Gelechiinae
Genus: Locharcha
Meyrick, 1923
Species:
L. emicans
Binomial name
Locharcha emicans
Meyrick, 1923

The wingspan is about 14 mm. The forewings are dark ashy-fuscous slightly speckled purple-whitish and with a moderate pointed whitish-ochreous dorsal streak from the base to the tornus, slightly speckled blackish, the upper edge margined with blackish suffusion from the base to an obtuse postmedian prominence. There is a black streak from the disc before the middle to the apex, interrupted beyond the middle by a spot of brown suffusion, at the apex expanded into a blotch including a small light ochreous spot. There is also an oblique whitish strigula on the costa at three-fourths. The hindwings are rather dark grey.[2]

References
  1. "Locharcha". ftp.funet.fi. Retrieved 2015-08-24.
  2. Exot. Microlep. 3 (1-2): 18


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