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Merimnetria epermeniella

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Gelechiidae

Scientific name
  
Merimnetria epermeniella

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Merimnetria

Rank
  
Species

Merimnetria epermeniella is a moth of the Gelechiidae family. It is endemic to Kauai, Hawaii.

The wingspan is about 16 mm. The forewings are pale fawn-ocherous, sprinkled and shaded with rust-brown and fuscous, the latter predominating in three sprinkled dorsal patches below the fold and slightly indicated along the middle of the costa. The former prevailing, in a short basal patch above the fold, in a strong outwardly oblique shade from the costa at one-fourth, reaching to the fold on the outer edge of an ill-defined oblique fascia of the paler ground color and thence in mottled sprinkling over the remaining wing-surface to the apex. The hindwings are grayish.

References

Merimnetria epermeniella Wikipedia