Phthorimaea urosema

Phthorimaea urosema
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Gelechiidae
Genus:	Phthorimaea
Species:	P. urosema
Binomial name
	Phthorimaea urosema; Meyrick, 1917
Synonyms
	Gnorimoschema urosema[1]

Phthorimaea urosema is a moth in the family Gelechiidae.[2] It was originally described from one adult male specimen from Peru.

The wingspan is about 14 mm. The forewings are greyish-ochreous, somewhat sprinkled irregularly with dark grey, the costa suffused with dark grey irroration and with three or four cloudy blackish-grey dots towards the base on the dorsal half. There is an oblique transverse patch of ochreous-whitish suffusion from the costa towards the base, followed on the costa by a small blackish spot and in the disc by an elongate blotch of blackish suffusion. The stigmata are blackish, surrounded by irregular ochreous-whitish suffusion, the plical obliquely before the first discal, a blotch of blackish suffusion in the middle of the disc lying between and beneath the discal stigmata. There are three small ochreous-whitish spots on the costa towards the apex, interrupting the dark grey irroration. The hindwings are slaty-grey.[3]

References

Becker, V.O. 1984: Gelechiidae. Pp. 44-52 in Heppner, J.B. (ed.), Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera: Checklist: Part I Micropterigoidea — Immoidea. Springer, Netherlands. doi:10.1007/978-94-009-6533-1 [See p. 46]
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Meyrick, E. 1917: Descriptions of South American micro-Lepidoptera. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, [65(1)]: 1-52. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2311.1917.tb01401.x BHL [See p. 43] This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

Povolný, D. 1990: Gnorimoschemini of Peru and Bolivia (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae). Steenstrupia, 16: 153–223. [Not seen]

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[1] Becker, V.O. 1984: Gelechiidae. Pp. 44-52 in Heppner, J.B. (ed.), Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera: Checklist: Part I Micropterigoidea — Immoidea. Springer, Netherlands. doi:10.1007/978-94-009-6533-1 [See p. 46]

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[3] Meyrick, E. 1917: Descriptions of South American micro-Lepidoptera. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, [65(1)]: 1-52. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2311.1917.tb01401.x BHL [See p. 43] This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.