Nealyda kinzelella

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Nealyda kinzelella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Gelechiidae
Genus:
Nealyda
Species:
N. kinzelella
Binomial name
Nealyda kinzelella
Busck, 1900

Nealyda kinzelella is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by August Busck in 1900. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Florida. [1] [2]

The wingspan is 5.5-6.5 mm. The basal half of the forewings is light brown, the color gradually becoming darker outwardly and terminating in a deep velvety brown. There is a transverse fascia at the middle of the wing, on the outside edged with a thin line of white scales. The fascia is more thickly scaled than the rest of the wing and protrudes in a small dorsal scale tooth. The ground color of the apical half of the wing is silvery white, thickly suffused with black, fuscous and bluish scales. An ill-defined group of dark scales at beginning of cilia is edged below with a few brown scales. Another at the apex also has a few brown scales below. At the tornus is a nearly black spot and the entire apical edge is nearly black. The hindwings are silvery gray.

The larvae feed on Guapira obtusata . They mine the leaves of their host plant, creating upper surface, trumpet-formed blotch mines. Pupation takes place outside of the mine in a snow white cocoon.

Etymology

The species is named in honour of botanist Mr. F. Kinzel. [3]

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References

  1. ↑ "Nealyda Dietz, 1900" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved July 7, 2017.
  2. ↑ Moth Photographers Group at Mississippi State University
  3. ↑ Proceedings of the United States National Museum 23 (1208): 230


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