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Syrmadaula

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Gelechiidae

Rank
  
Genus

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Species
  
S. automorpha

Syrmadaula is a genus of moth in the family Gelechiidae. It contains the species Syrmadaula automorpha, which is found in Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe.

The wingspan is 13–14 mm. The forewings are light fuscous irrorated with dark fuscous. The stigmata are moderate, dark fuscous, the plical somewhat obliquely before the first discal. There is a dark fuscous dot near the dorsum at three-fourths and there are three or four cloudy dark fuscous dots on the termen. The hindwings are grey.

References

Syrmadaula Wikipedia