Dactylethrella siccifolii

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Dactylethrella siccifolii
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Dactylethrella
Species:
D. siccifolii
Binomial name
Dactylethrella siccifolii
(Walsingham, 1881)
Synonyms
  • Ypsolophus siccifoliiWalsingham, 1881

Dactylethrella siccifolii is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Walsingham in 1881. [1] It is found in South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga, Limpopo). [2]

The wingspan is about 25 mm. The forewings are cinereous bone-colour, more or less irrorated and suffused with ochreous fawn-colour, especially on the upper and outer half of the wing and with a few scattered dark purplish scales near the base of the costal margin, and two rounded groups of dark purplish scales on the disc, one before and one beyond the middle. There are some shining whitish oblique streaks on the outer half of the costa, and a bright shining silvery metallic line along the apical margin. The hindwings are pale bone-colour. [3]

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References

  1. ↑ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Dactylethrella siccifolii". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index . Natural History Museum . Retrieved May 20, 2018.
  2. ↑ Afro Moths
  3. ↑ Walsingham, Thomas de Grey 1881. On the Tortricidae, Tineidae and Pterophoridae of South Africa. - Transactions of the entomological Society of London 1881(2): 267 PD-icon.svgThis article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .


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