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Tiquadra pontifica

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Species of moth

Tiquadra pontifica
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Tineidae
Genus: Tiquadra
Species: T. pontifica
Binomial name
Tiquadra pontifica
Meyrick, 1919

Tiquadra pontifica is a moth of the family Tineidae. It is known from French Guiana

This species has a wingspan of about 22 mm. The forewings are whitish grey, the markings dark grey mixed with blackish. There is a mark on the base of the costa and a transverse fascia of irregular strigulation or marbling at one-third, where a bar runs below the middle to the base, and another bar in the middle to a large irregular patch of similar marbling occupying nearly the apical third of the wing and partially suffused brownish. The hindwings are dark grey.

References

  1. Gates-Clarke. The types of Micro-Lepidoptera described by E. Meyrick, Vol.8- Pl.53
  2. Exotic Microlep. 2: 276 Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
Taxon identifiers
Tiquadra pontifica


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