Recurvaria picula

Recurvaria picula is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in Mexico (Veracruz).[1]

Recurvaria picula
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Gelechiidae
Genus:	Recurvaria
Species:	R. picula
Binomial name
Recurvaria picula Walsingham, 1910

The wingspan is about 10 mm. The forewings are white, slightly smeared with olivaceous brown between the black markings, which consist of four elongate costal spots, one at the base, forming the origin of an outwardly oblique black and brown fascia, in which some of the scales are slightly raised, reaching the dorsum at one-third from the base, one, scarcely before the middle, one beyond the middle, and a fourth, forming a somewhat broken patch, just before the apex. There is another mixed black and brownish spot on the dorsum before the tornus, while a little below each of the two middle costal spots is a black dot. The terminal cilia whitish, mottled with olivaceous brownish and the dorsal cilia grey. The hindwings are grey.[2]