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Dactylethrella globulata

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Gelechiidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Dactylethrella

Dactylethrella globulata is a moth in the Gelechiidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1910. It is found in Sri Lanka.

The wingspan is 11–12 mm. The forewings are whitish, tinged with brownish and sprinkled with dark fuscous and with three moderately large roundish fuscous spots in the disc at one-fourth, halfway and at two-thirds, sprinkled with darker, the first smaller and less marked. There is a suffused similar patch extending along the termen. The hindwings are grey.

References

Dactylethrella globulata Wikipedia