Kingdom Animalia Family Gelechiidae Genus Symmetrischema Order Butterflies and moths | Class Insecta Phylum Arthropoda Rank Species | |
Similar Symmetrischema, Butterflies and moths, Gelechiidae | ||
Symmetrischema capsica, the pepper flowerbud moth, is a moth in the Gelechiidae family. It was described by Bradley and Povolný in 1965. It is found Mexico, the West Indies, the Caribbean (Trinidad and Tobago) and the south-eastern United States, where it has been recorded Florida and Texas.
The length of the forewings is 3-3.5 mm. The forewings are ash-gray, mottled with dark gray and yellowish-orange and with two or three grayish-black longitudinal dashes. The hindwings are gray.
The larvae feed in the flower buds of Capsicum annuum and Physalis species.
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