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Aristotelia crassicornis

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Species of moth

Aristotelia crassicornis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Aristotelia
Species: A. crassicornis
Binomial name
Aristotelia crassicornis
Walsingham, 1897

Aristotelia crassicornis is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Thomas de Grey, 6th Baron Walsingham, in 1897. It is found on the Virgin Islands, where it has been recorded from St. Jan.

The wingspan is about 8 mm. The forewings are hoary whitish, sprinkled with greyish-fuscous scaling and with numerous short, slender, dark fuscous longitudinal streaklets accompanied by a few ferruginous scales, these have a tendency to follow the lines of the cell and of the fold, being only indicated on the costa by a minute streak at the base and two spots, one before the other behind the middle. The hindwings are shining, pale grey.

References

  1. funet.fi
  2. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1897 : 68 Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
Taxon identifiers
Aristotelia crassicornis


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