Sarotorna mesoleuca is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from New South Wales and Victoria.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gelechiidae |
| Genus: | Sarotorna |
| Species: | S. mesoleuca
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| Binomial name | |
| Sarotorna mesoleuca (Lower, 1900)
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The wingspan is 14–16 mm (0.55–0.63 in). The forewings are dark golden-bronzy-fuscous with a rather broad white longitudinal streak above the middle from the base to the apex, posteriorly suffusedly dilated to reach the costa, the lower edge with irregular blackish indentations before and beyond the middle, the first triangular, the second rounded, representing the discal stigmata. The plical stigmata are elongate, suffused, blackish and very obliquely before the first discal. A rather broad dorsal streak of white suffusion is found from the base to the tornus, sometimes little marked. The hindwings are grey.[2]
References
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- ^ Li, H.-h. & K. Sattler, 2012: A taxonomic revision of the genus Mesophleps Hübner, 1825 (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae). Zootaxa 3373: 1-82.
- ^ Meyrick, E. (1904). "Descriptions of Australian Micro-Lepidoptera". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 29 (part II [number 114]): 427. Retrieved 17 June 2020 – via Internet Archive.
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