Ethirostoma semiacma
| Ethirostoma semiacma | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gelechiidae |
| Genus: | Ethirostoma |
| Species: | E. semiacma
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| Binomial name | |
| Ethirostoma semiacma Meyrick, 1914
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Ethirostoma semiacma is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1914. It is found in Guyana.[1]
The wingspan is 8–10 mm. The forewings are purplish fuscous, more or less suffusedly irrorated (sprinkled) with white and with a dark fuscous erect mark from the base of the dorsum and an irregular dark fuscous spot beneath the costa at one-fifth. There is a dark fuscous transverse streak from the dorsum at one-fourth, reaching halfway across the wing, posteriorly edged with white and there is a thick black streak along the costa from before the middle to near the apex, cut by two very oblique white strigulae from beyond the middle and at two-thirds. The stigmata are dark fuscous, the plical obliquely before the first discal, followed by a raised white spot, the first discal indistinct, the second enlarged into an irregular spot followed by a whitish tuft and there is an irregular elongate ochreous-white apical blotch, from the anterior extremity of which a faint dentate whitish line runs to the tornus. A leaden-grey spot adjoins an apical blotch beneath. The hindwings are grey in males and dark grey in females, thinly scaled towards the base.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Savela, Markku, ed. (February 12, 2015). "Ethirostoma semiacma Meyrick, 1914". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 29, 2020.
- ^ Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. 1914: 245.
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