Udea tetragramma is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by John Frederick Gates Clarke in 1965. It is found on the Galápagos Islands.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Crambidae |
| Genus: | Udea |
| Species: | U. tetragramma
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| Binomial name | |
| Udea tetragramma (J. F. G. Clarke, 1965)
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The wingspan is 17–18 mm. The forewings are fuscous, strongly overlaid with ferruginous. There is a straight, transverse, ill-defined, fuscous line at two-fifths of the costa, extending to the dorsum at the basal third. From the apical sixth of the costa extends a transverse, ill-defined line to vein 2, then along vein 2 to the cell, then diagonally, outwardly and then straight to the dorsum at the outer two-thirds. There are three small white dots in the cell, preceded and followed by blackish-fuscous scales. There are also four ochreous-tawny spots on the outer half of the costa, alternating with suffused shades of blackish fuscous. On the termen, there are seven small, ill-defined blackish-fuscous dots. The hindwings are grayish fuscous. On the discocellulars and the bases of veins 6 and 8 there is a black spot preceded by a whitish area of the wing. From the apical fourth of the costa there is an irregular blackish-fuscous line, extending to the anal veins.[2]
References
edit- ^ Nuss, M.; et al. (2003–2014). "GlobIZ search". Global Information System on Pyraloidea. Retrieved July 15, 2014.
- ^ Microlepidoptera of Juan Fernández Islands
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