Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Gelechiidae | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Istrianis | |
Istrianis steganotricha is a moth of the Gelechiidae family. It is found in India and Indonesia (Java).
The wingspan is 8–9 mm. The forewings are dark grey sprinkled black and slightly speckled whitish. In males, the costal fold on the basal third contains an elongate mass of pale ochreous woolly hairs. The stigmata are black, accompanied or margined by irregular variable brownish-ochreous spots or marks, the plical beneath first discal, above the second discal a small black costal spot. The hindwings are grey with a bluish gloss.
The larvae feed on Desmodium species.
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