Battaristis orthocampta

Battaristis orthocampta is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1914. It is found in Guyana.[1]

Battaristis orthocampta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Gelechiidae
Genus:	Battaristis
Species:	B. orthocampta
Binomial name
Battaristis orthocampta Meyrick, 1914

The wingspan is 9–10 mm. The forewings are grey or pale greyish ochreous, somewhat tinged with fuscous towards the dorsum and with a black dot beneath the fold at one-fourth. The plical and second discal stigmata are blackish and there is a thick blackish streak along the costa from two-fifths to the apex, attenuated anteriorly, cut by a fine white very oblique strigula from the costa beyond the middle. There is a fine black dash in the disc beyond the second discal stigma, not reaching the subterminal line and there is sometimes a blackish mark on the dorsum before the subterminal line. A fine whitish subterminal line is found from three-fourths of the costa to the tornus, right angled in the middle, both portions straight. A white bar connects the angle of this line with the termen beneath the apex, including a fine black strigula posteriorly. The terminal area beneath this is fuscous, irrorated (sprinkled) with whitish and there is a minute whitish dot on the costa near the apex. The hindwings are dark fuscous.[2]

References

1. Savela, Markku (December 31, 2018). "Battaristis orthocampta Meyrick, 1914". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 18, 2020.
2. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. 1914: 246.