Merimnetria epermeniella

Merimnetria epermeniella is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was first described by Lord Walsingham in 1907. It is endemic to the Hawaiian island of Kauai.

Merimnetria epermeniella
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Merimnetria
Species:
M. epermeniella
Binomial name
Merimnetria epermeniella
(Walsingham, 1907)
Synonyms
  • Merimnetria (Aristoteliodes) epermeniella
  • Aristotelia epermeniella Walsingham, 1907

The wingspan is about 16 mm. The forewings are pale fawn ocherous, sprinkled and shaded with rust brown and fuscous, the latter predominating in three sprinkled dorsal patches below the fold and slightly indicated along the middle of the costa. The former prevailing, in a short basal patch above the fold, in a strong outwardly oblique shade from the costa at one-fourth, reaching to the fold on the outer edge of an ill-defined oblique fascia of the paler ground color and thence in mottled sprinkling over the remaining wing surface to the apex. The hindwings are grayish.[1]

References

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  1. ^ Fauna Hawaiiensis 1 (5): 480   This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
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  • Zimmerman, Elwood C. (1978). Insects of Hawaii. Vol. 9 Microlepidoptera. The University Press of Hawaii, Honolulu. hdl:10125/7338.