Nothris hastata is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1918.[1] It is found in north-eastern India.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gelechiidae |
| Genus: | Nothris |
| Species: | N. hastata
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| Binomial name | |
| Nothris hastata (Meyrick, 1918)
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The wingspan is 13–20 mm. The forewings are fuscous, the veins marked by faint pale lines and with blackish marks on the base of the costa and dorsum. There is a strong black central streak from the base to the end of cell, the lower edge with a short linear tooth on the fold, the extremity prolonged as a slender acute streak to near the apex. The hindwings are grey.[3]
References
edit- ^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Harpagidia hastata". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 27, 2018.
- ^ Ponomarenko, M. G. (October–November 1997). "Catalogue of the Subfamily Dichomeridinae (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae) of the Asia" (PDF). Far Eastern Entomologist. 50: 1–67. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 20, 2013.
- ^ Meyrick, Edward (1916–1923). Exotic Microlepidoptera. 2: 152.
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