Filatima normifera

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Filatima normifera
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Filatima
Species:
F. normifera
Binomial name
Filatima normifera
(Meyrick, 1927)
Synonyms
  • Gelechia normiferaMeyrick, 1927

Filatima normifera is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Texas and Wyoming. [1] [2]

The wingspan is 18–25 mm. The forewings are greyish more or less sprinkled or irrorated dark fuscous, sometimes tinged or irrorated whitish, or partially streaked ochreous-brown especially towards the costa and posteriorly. The stigmata are blackish, usually more or less circled ochreous, the discal moderate, the plical usually linear, rather before the first discal. There is a faint whitish angulated line at four-fifths sometimes perceptible. The hindwings are light bluish-grey. [3]

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References

  1. Filatima at funet
  2. mothphotographersgroup
  3. Exot. Microlep. 3 (11): 347 PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .