Macrenches clerica

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Macrenches clerica
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Macrenches
Species:
M. clerica
Binomial name
Macrenches clerica
(Rosenstock, 1885) [1]
Synonyms
  • Gelechia clericaRosenstock, 1885

Macrenches clerica is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is known from Australia, where it has been recorded from Tasmania and south-eastern mainland Australia.

The wingspan is 15–18 mm (0.59–0.71 in). The forewings are dark bronzy-fuscous with a broad ochreous-whitish costal streak from the base to near the apex, mixed with light fuscous towards the costa from the middle to near the extremity. There is a similar dorsal streak from near the base to the termen near the apex, more or less suffused with fuscous posteriorly, sometimes tinged with brassy-yellowish on the upper edge anteriorly. The hindwings are grey or pale grey, paler anteriorly. [2]

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References

  1. Australian Faunal Directory [ permanent dead link ]
  2. Meyrick, E. (1904). "Descriptions of Australian Micro-Lepidoptera". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 29 (part II [number 114]): 307. Retrieved 17 June 2020 via Internet Archive.PD-icon.svgThis article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .