Axyrostola | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Gelechiidae |
Tribe: | Chelariini |
Genus: | Axyrostola Meyrick, 1923 |
Species: | A. acherusia |
Binomial name | |
Axyrostola acherusia Meyrick, 1923 | |
Axyrostola is a genus of moth in the family Gelechiidae. [1] It contains only one species, Axyrostola acherusia, which is found in Burma. [2]
The wingspan is about 14 mm. The forewings are white sprinkled with fuscous and with a broad irregular bronzy-fuscous median stripe from the base to the costa before the apex, containing a less broad irregular suffused black stripe nearly interrupted in the middle and posteriorly running along its upper edge and sending, at four-fifths from the lower edge, a blackish line nearly to the termen beneath the apex. This stripe appears to form a round spot at three-fourths, half black and half fuscous. There is also a dark fuscous marginal line around the apex and termen. The hindwings are grey, but lighter towards the base. [3]
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