Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Carposinidae Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Carposina | |
Carposina maritima is a moth in the Carposinidae family. It was described by Ponomarenko in 1999. It is found in the Russian Far East.
The wingspan is 13-15.5 mm. The groundcolour of the forewings is white, with a pattern consisting of seven indistinct grey strokes on the costal margin and five concolorous small spots at the end of the veins on the termen and a grey spot at the end of the cell. The hindwings are grey in males and light-grey in females.
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