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    No Common Name (Filatima biminimaculella)

    Source: Wikipedia

    Filatima biminimaculella
    Scientific classification Edit this classification
    Domain: Eukaryota
    Kingdom: Animalia
    Phylum: Arthropoda
    Class: Insecta
    Order: Lepidoptera
    Family: Gelechiidae
    Genus: Filatima
    Species:
    F. biminimaculella
    Binomial name
    Filatima biminimaculella
    (Chambers, 1880)
    Synonyms
    • Gelechia biminimaculella Chambers, 1880
    • Fascista biminimaculella

    Filatima biminimaculella is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas.[1][2]

    Adults are similar to Filatima pseudacaciella, but are a little darker and lack the white dusting in the apical part of the wing. There is also a small ochreous spot on each side of the apex of the thorax. Otherwise, the species resemble closely being brown with a faint purplish hue, more or less distinctly streaked longitudinally, with ochreous within the costal margin.[3]

    References

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    1. ^ Filatima at funet
    2. ^ mothphotographersgroup
    3. ^ J. Cincinnati Soc. nat. Hist. 2 (4) : 183Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.