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Meridarchis caementaria

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Carposinidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Meridarchis

Meridarchis caementaria is a moth in the Carposinidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1911. It is found on the Seychelles (Aldabra).

This species has a wingspan of 13mm. The head is whithish-ochreous sprinkled with grey. The forewings are pale greyish ochreous sprinkled with grey and blackish, more whitish-ochreous on margins; seven small spots of blackish irroration on the costa, two in disc at 2/5 and 2/3, one on submedian fold before tornus and several along termen.

References

Meridarchis caementaria Wikipedia