Calliprora platyxipha
| Calliprora platyxipha | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification 
| |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gelechiidae |
| Genus: | Calliprora |
| Species: | C. platyxipha
|
| Binomial name | |
| Calliprora platyxipha Meyrick, 1922
| |
Calliprora platyxipha is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in Brazil (Amazonas, Para).[1]
The wingspan is 10–12 mm. The forewings are dark fuscous with a broad ochreous-whitish pointed supramedian streak from the base to near the middle, in females narrower and with a short whitish line above its posterior portion. There is a shorter whitish submedian line from the base, and a much shorter dorsal line towards the base. There a rather oblique triangular whitish spot on the middle of the dorsum reaching half across the wing, in females narrower and in males an oblique whitish wedge-shaped streak from the costa about two-thirds, beneath this a longitudinal line, then a wedge-shaped spot, then two longitudinal lines, and finally one on the dorsum, these markings in females smaller and less developed. There is an angulated purple-grey subterminal line, in females whitish at extremities, in males stronger and whitish on the costal and dorsal thirds. There is a ferruginous-brownish streak from the costa beyond this running to the apex, sometimes extended by obscure suffusion along the termen. The hindwings are dark fuscous.[2]
References
[edit]
- ^ Calliprora at funet
- ^ Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 1922 : 68
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
