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Glyphidocera ptilostoma

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Autostichidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Glyphidocera

Glyphidocera ptilostoma is a moth in the Autostichidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1935. It is found in Argentina.

The wingspan is 12-13 mm. The forewings are light brownish-grey sprinkled with dark fuscous. The stigmata form small very indistinct spots of dark fuscous irroration, the plical rather obliquely before the fiĀrst discal. The hindwings are grey-whitish, faintly greyer towards the apex.

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Glyphidocera ptilostoma Wikipedia