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Gelechia epistolica

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Gelechiidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Gelechia

Gelechia epistolica is a moth of the Gelechiidae family. It is found in Tibet.

The wingspan is 22–23 mm. The forewings are light grey, irregularly irrorated grey-whitish and darker grey and with a small elongate blackish spot on the base of the costa. The discal stigmata are represented by dark grey spots, the first oblique-triangular, the second transverse. There are small irregular spots of blackish irroration around the apical part of the costa and termen. The hindwings are light grey.

References

Gelechia epistolica Wikipedia