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Haplochela trigonota is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Thomas de Grey in 1911. It is found in Mexico, Panama, Guyana and Brazil.

The wingspan is 16–21 mm. The fore-wings are shining, fawn-ochreous, mottled with darker and paler shades of umber-brown, with some fuscous scaling at the base. There is a conspicuous flap of scales at the start of the cell and a large triangular patch on the middle of the costa, consisting of two shades of umber-brown, with some dark fuscous, preceded and followed by small costal spots of the same colour. Below it, towards the dorsum near to the base, are a few raised scales of umber-brown. The outer third of the wing, except towards the costa, is much shaded with umber-brown, mottled, especially along the termen, with dark fuscous. The hind-wings are grayish brown.

References

1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "​Haplochela trigonota​". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 25, 2018.
2. Haplochela at funet
3. Biol. centr.-amer. Lep. Heterocera 4 : 58 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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