Dissoptila prozona

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

Dissoptila prozona
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Gelechiidae
Genus:
Dissoptila
Species:
D. prozona
Binomial name
Dissoptila prozona
Meyrick, 1914

The wingspan is about 7 mm. The forewings are rather dark fuscous, with a faint purplish tinge and a broad whitish-ochreous fascia near the base, the edges are straight. There are two large blackish tufts rather obliquely placed in the disc at one-third and a whitish-ochreous dot on the middle of the costa, one in the disc rather beyond this, and an inwardly oblique strigula from the costa at two-thirds, as well as a slender somewhat incurved whitish-ochreous fascia from three-fourths of the costa to the tornus, narrowly interrupted in the middle and with narrow projections inwards on each side of this. The hindwings are dark grey, subhyaline (almost glass like) in the disc anteriorly.[2]

References
  1. Savela, Markku, ed. (February 12, 2015). "Dissoptila prozona Meyrick, 1914". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 27, 2020.
  2. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. 1914: 235.


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