Encolapta

Last updated

Encolapta
Scientific classification Red Pencil Icon.png
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Subfamily: Anacampsinae
Genus: Encolapta
Meyrick, 1913
Species:
E. metorcha
Binomial name
Encolapta metorcha
Meyrick, 1913

Encolapta is a genus of moth in the family Gelechiidae. [1] It contains only one species, Encolapta metorcha, which is found in Sri Lanka. [2]

The wingspan is 14–15 mm. The forewings are grey or fuscous irrorated with white, with some scattered blackish scales and with a series of small blackish spots along the costa, one in the middle rather larger and elongate. There are some irregular scattered groups of dark fuscous scales in the disc, as well as a pre-marginal series of cloudy dark fuscous spots around the posterior part of the costa and termen. The hindwings are grey, paler and thinly scaled anteriorly and with the veins and termen darker. [3]

Related Research Articles

Pilocrates is a genus of moth in the family Gelechiidae. It contains only one species, Pilocrates prograpta, which is found in southern India.

Copromorpha nesographa is a moth in the Copromorphidae family. It is found on New Ireland.

Agonopterix remota is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1921. It is found in Palestine.

Dichomeris famulata is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1914. It is found in Guyana, Colombia, Brazil, Peru and Trinidad.

Bagdadia paroctas is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1913. It is found in China (Zhejiang), Vietnam, Sri Lanka, India's Andaman Islands and Java, Indonesia.

Bagdadia isosema is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1921. It is found in Zimbabwe.

Hypatima isoptila is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1913. It is found in Sri Lanka.

Hypatima loxosaris is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1918. It is found in Mozambique and KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa.

Anacampsis petrographa is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1922. It is found in Brazil (Para).

Aristotelia clavata is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1914. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Victoria.

Stenoma alluvialis is a moth of the family Depressariidae. It is found in Peru and French Guiana.

Kertomesis stesichora is a moth in the family Autostichidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1911. It is found in India.

Lethata psidii is a moth of the family Depressariidae. It is found in the Guianas and Venezuela.

Loboptila cyphoma is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1915. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Queensland.

Odites pelochrosta is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1933. It is found in Sierra Leone.

Anchinia oenochares is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1924. It is found in South Africa and Zimbabwe.

Orphnolechia crypsiphragma is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1909. It is found in Bolivia.

Chlamydastis melanonca is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1915. It is found in Guyana.

Moca aphrodora is a species of moth in the family Immidae first described by Edward Meyrick in 1922. It is found in Brazil and Peru.

Imma eriospila is a species of moth in the family Immidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1922. It is found in Pará, Brazil.

References

  1. ↑ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Encolapta". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index . Natural History Museum . Retrieved May 23, 2018.
  2. ↑ Encolapta at funet
  3. ↑ J. Bombay nat. hist. Soc. 22 (1): 167 PD-icon.svgThis article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .


This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.