Meridorma

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Meridorma
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Subfamily: Gelechiinae
Genus: Meridorma
Meyrick, 1925
Species:
M. thrombodes
Binomial name
Meridorma thrombodes
(Meyrick, 1914)
Synonyms
  • Ptocheuusa thrombodesMeyrick, 1914

Meridorma is a genus of moth in the family Gelechiidae. It contains the species Meridorma thrombodes, which is found in Guyana. [1]

The wingspan is 6–7 mm. The forewings are blackish with three blackish spots on the costa near the base, at one-third, and two-thirds, and three in the disc obliquely beyond these respectively, the last two discal elongate, the last largest. There is a blackish dot on the fold before the second discal spot, and a cloudy spot on the tornus, as well as a small cloudy black apical spot, and sometimes a dot on the costa above it. The hindwings are rather dark grey, thinly scaled in disc. [2]

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References

  1. ↑ funet.fi
  2. ↑ Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 1914 : 232 PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .


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