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Agnippe aequorea

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Species of moth

Agnippe aequorea
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Agnippe
Species: A. aequorea
Binomial name
Agnippe aequorea
(Meyrick, 1917)
Synonyms
  • Recurvaria aequorea Meyrick, 1917
  • Evippe aequorea Meyrick, 1917

Agnippe aequorea is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It is found in Peru.

The wingspan is about 8 mm. The forewings are dark fuscous, sprinkled with whitish and with a cloudy whitish dorsal streak from the base to tornus, speckled with dark fuscous, pointed posteriorly, edge irregular. The hindwings are pale slaty-grey in males and grey in females.

References

  1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "​Evippe aequorea​". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 18, 2018.
  2. Agnippe at funet
  3. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1917 (1) : 39 Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
Taxon identifiers
Agnippe aequorea


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