Metriochroa alboannulata | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Gracillariidae |
Genus: | Metriochroa |
Species: | M. alboannulata |
Binomial name | |
Metriochroa alboannulata Bai, 2016 [1] | |
Metriochroa alboannulata is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is found in Jiangxi, China. [1] [2]
The wingspan is 6.5–7.5 mm. The forewings are fuscous, shining with purple and with two silvery white fasciae, the first at the basal one-fourth, and slightly outwardly angulate on the wing fold, the second at the subapex and outwardly oblique. The costa and dorsum have an outwardly oblique bar-shaped silvery white speck at the middle, the costal speck longer than the dorsal one. The dorsum has a silvery white speck near the tornus. The hindwings are fuscous. [1]
The specific name is composed of albus and annulatus, meaning with white ring, referring to the flagellum of the antenna with white rings on its distal part. [1]