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Eurysacca melanocampta

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Gelechiidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Eurysacca

Similar
  
Copitarsia, Peronospora farinosa, Epicauta, Herpetogramma, Gelechiidae

Eurysacca melanocampta is a moth in the Gelechiidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1917. It is found in Peru.

The wingspan is about 16 mm. The forewings are light greyish-ochreous, irregularly sprinkled with blackish-grey, the costa narrowly suffused with dark grey irroration and with several cloudy black dots on the basal area. There is a thick black suffused streak from the costa at one-fourth, rather obliquely half across the wing, then abruptly bent and continued through the middle of the disc to the apex, attenuated posteriorly, nearly interrupted by small pale spots representing the discal stigmata, and irregularly interrupted near the apex. The hindwings are pale slaty-grey.

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Eurysacca melanocampta Wikipedia