Aristotelia chalybeiochroa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Aristotelia
Species:
A. chalybeiochroa
Binomial name
Aristotelia chalybeiochroa
(Walsingham, 1897)
Synonyms
  • Eucatoptus chalybeiochroa Walsingham, 1897

Aristotelia chalybeiochroa is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Walsingham in 1897. It is found in West Indies, where it has been recorded from St. Thomas.[1]

The wingspan is about 9 mm. The forewings are brownish cinereous, with a steely gloss throughout and some ferruginous scaling, especially on the outer half. At the extreme base of the costa is a small dark fuscous spot, narrowly connected with an oblique narrow broken fascia of the same colour, extending outwards to the dorsum, which it reaches at about one-fourth the wing-length. Beyond this is a minute black spot on the outer half of the fold, the remainder of the wing to the apex being speckled with black scales, some preceded by whitish and on the costa before the apex is an elongate shining whitish spot, followed by black speckling around the base of the terminal cilia which partake of the wing-colour, but tending to pale grey at the tornus, with a dark shade running around their extreme tips. The hindwings are shining pale steel-grey.[2]

References

  1. ↑ funet.fi
  2. ↑ Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1897 : 69 Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.


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