Osmarina

Osmarina
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Depressariidae
Subfamily:	Depressariinae
Genus:	Osmarina J. F. G. Clarke, 1978
Species:	O. argilla
Binomial name
Osmarina argilla J. F. G. Clarke, 1978

Osmarina is a monotypic moth genus in the family Depressariidae. Its only species, Osmarina argilla, is found in Chile. Both the genus and species were described by John Frederick Gates Clarke in 1978. ^[1]

The wingspan is 17–19 mm. The forewings are clay colored overlaid with brown scales and with a fuscous dot at the basal third, in the cell and followed at the end of the cell by a pair of similarly colored spots. In the fold is a similar small spot. The costa is narrowly pale buff and between the outer pair of the discal spots and termen, is a pale clay-colored, irregular, transverse line. Along the termen is a narrow broken fuscous line. The hindwings are grayish. ^[2]

References

1. Savela, Markku. "Osmarina Clarke, 1978". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 13, 2019.
2. Clarke, J. F. Gates (1978). Neotropical Microlepidoptera, XXI: New Genera and Species of Oecophoridae from Chile (PDF). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology • Number 273. Smithsonian Institution Press. p. 67. Retrieved 15 December 2017. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .