Utilia falcata

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Utilia falcata
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Oecophoridae
Genus: Utilia
Species:
U. falcata
Binomial name
Utilia falcata
J. F. G. Clarke, 1978

Utilia falcata is a moth in the family Oecophoridae. It was described by John Frederick Gates Clarke in 1978. It is found in Chile. [1]

The wingspan is about 24 mm. The forewings are pale ocheraceous buff. Well inside the termen there is a line of four tiny, ill-defined, single brownish scales and there is a single brownish scale at the basal two-fifths in the cell and on the fold a similar mark. The hindwings are ocherous white. [2]

References

  1. Savela, Markku. "Utilia falcata Clarke, 1978". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 13, 2019.
  2. J. F. Gates Clarke (1978). Neotropical Microlepidoptera, XXI: New Genera and Species of Oecophoridae from Chile (PDF). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology • Number 273. Smithsonian Institution Press. p. 51. Retrieved 15 December 2017.PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .