Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Gelechiidae Rank Genus | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Species H. ametris | |
Haplovalva is a genus of moth in the family Gelechiidae. It contains the species Haplovalva ametris, which is found in South Africa.
The wingspan is about 18 mm. The forewings are pale ochreous, somewhat sprinkled with fuscous, suffused towards the costa anteriorly with brownish, and towards the costa posteriorly and termen with grey, more or less streaked between the veins with dark fuscous. The stigmata are represented by small ochreous-white dots, the discal placed on a ferruginous-brown streak continued beneath vein six, the first discal extended as an irregular mark anteriorly, the plical very obliquely before the first discal. There are cloudy blackish dots on the extremities of the intraneural streaks, two above and two below the apex preceded by ochreous-white marks. The hindwings are grey, but paler anteriorly.