Metriochroa alboannulata

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Metriochroa alboannulata
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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]

Etymology

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]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Bai, Haiyan; Xu, Jiasheng & Dai, Xiaohua (2016). "Two new and one newly recorded species of Gracillariidae from China (Lepidoptera)". ZooKeys (559): 139–150. Bibcode:2016ZooK..559..139B. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.559.6812 . Creative Commons by small.svg  This article incorporates text available under the CC BY 3.0 license.
  2. De Prins, J. & De Prins, W., eds. (2024). "Metriochroa alboannulata Bai, 2016". Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae. Belspo, Brussels, Belgium: Belgian Biodiversity Platform. Retrieved 17 January 2025.