Dactylethrella globulata
Appearance
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Gelechiidae |
Genus: | Dactylethrella |
Species: | D. globulata
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Binomial name | |
Dactylethrella globulata (Meyrick, 1910)
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Dactylethrella globulata is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1910.[1] It is found in Sri Lanka.[2]
The wingspan is 11–12 mm. The forewings are whitish, tinged with brownish and sprinkled with dark fuscous and with three moderately large roundish fuscous spots in the disc at one-fourth, halfway and at two-thirds, sprinkled with darker, the first smaller and less marked. There is a suffused similar patch extending along the termen. The hindwings are grey.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Dactylethrella globulata". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 20, 2018.
- ^ Savela, Markku, ed. (March 16, 2019). "Dactylethrella globulata (Meyrick, 1910)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 25, 2020.
- ^ Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 20 (2): 461. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.