Gelechia trachydyta

Gelechia trachydyta
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Gelechiidae
Genus:	Gelechia
Species:	G. trachydyta
Binomial name
	Gelechia trachydyta; (Meyrick, 1920)
Synonyms
	Chelaria trachydyta Meyrick, 1920;

Gelechia trachydyta is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1920. It is found in southern India.^[1]

The wingspan is 12–14 mm. The forewings are fuscous, irregularly irrorated (sprinkled) with dark fuscous, with several small scattered tufts of scales and semi-oval dark fuscous spots on the costa before the middle and at two-thirds. There are undefined elongate spots of dark fuscous suffusion or irroration in the disc before and beyond the middle, and above the tornus and cloudy dark marginal dots around the posterior part of the costa and termen. The hindwings are grey, thinly scaled anteriorly.^[2]

References

^ Savela, Markku, ed. (February 8, 2019). "Gelechia trachydyta (Meyrick, 1920)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 30, 2020.
^ Meyrick, Edward (1916–1923). Exotic Microlepidoptera. 2 (10): 304. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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[1] Savela, Markku, ed. (February 8, 2019). "Gelechia trachydyta (Meyrick, 1920)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 30, 2020.

[2] Meyrick, Edward (1916–1923). Exotic Microlepidoptera. 2 (10): 304. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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