Araeovalva albiflora
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Araeovalva
Species:
A. albiflora
Binomial name
Araeovalva albiflora
(Meyrick, 1920)
Synonyms
  • Gelechia albiflora Meyrick, 1920

Araeovalva albiflora is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It is found in South Africa.[1][2]

The wingspan is 19–20 mm. The forewings are dark ashy-fuscous with an irregular ochreous-white transverse strigula from the base of the costa and an irregular ochreous-white spot beneath the costa at one-fifth, as well as a thick black streak extending along the fold from one-fifth to near the middle of the wing, interrupted by two ochreous-white spots. There is an ochreous-white spot in the disc slightly beyond the second of these, and a larger spot in disc at two-thirds, these more or less surrounded with black and united by a black blotch, opposite small cloudy whitish spots at three-fourths of the costa and tornus tending to unite into a straight line touching this. There are some irregular whitish scales in the disc beyond this. The hindwings are ochreous-whitish, with a slight bluish tinge.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Araeovalva at funet
  2. ↑ Afro Moths
  3. ↑ Ann. S. Afr. Mus. 17 (4): 283 Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.


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