Meridorma
| Meridorma | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gelechiidae |
| Subfamily: | Gelechiinae |
| Genus: | Meridorma Meyrick, 1925 |
| Species: | M. thrombodes
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| Binomial name | |
| Meridorma thrombodes (Meyrick, 1914)
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Meridorma is a genus of moth in the family Gelechiidae. It contains the species Meridorma thrombodes, which is found in Guyana.[1]
The wingspan is 6–7 mm. The forewings are blackish with three blackish spots on the costa near the base, at one-third, and two-thirds, and three in the disc obliquely beyond these respectively, the last two discal elongate, the last largest. There is a blackish dot on the fold before the second discal spot, and a cloudy spot on the tornus, as well as a small cloudy black apical spot, and sometimes a dot on the costa above it. The hindwings are rather dark grey, thinly scaled in disc.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ funet.fi
- ^ Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 1914 : 232
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