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Merimnetria ichthyochroa

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Gelechiidae

Scientific name
  
Merimnetria ichthyochroa

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Merimnetria

Rank
  
Species

Merimnetria ichthyochroa is a moth of the Gelechiidae family. It is endemic to Molokai, Hawaii.

The wingspan is about 16 mm. The forewings are rather shining, whitish cinereous (ash gray), but showing a slight ferruginous reflection in certain lights. There is a broad triangular ferruginous costal blotch, commencing at one-fourth, descends outward to the middle of the fold and is then diffused upward to the commencement of the costal cilia, a few dark ferruginous scales about the apex and termen precede the leaden gray cilia which have also in some lights a reddish-brown reflection. The hindwings are dark brownish gray.

References

Merimnetria ichthyochroa Wikipedia