Phthorimaea urosema

Phthorimaea urosema is a moth in the family Gelechiidae.[2] It was originally described from one adult male specimen from Peru.

Phthorimaea urosema
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Gelechiidae
Genus:
Phthorimaea
Species:
P. urosema
Binomial name
Phthorimaea urosema
Meyrick, 1917
Synonyms

Gnorimoschema urosema[1]

The wingspan is about 14 mm. The forewings are greyish-ochreous, somewhat sprinkled irregularly with dark grey, the costa suffused with dark grey irroration and with three or four cloudy blackish-grey dots towards the base on the dorsal half. There is an oblique transverse patch of ochreous-whitish suffusion from the costa towards the base, followed on the costa by a small blackish spot and in the disc by an elongate blotch of blackish suffusion. The stigmata are blackish, surrounded by irregular ochreous-whitish suffusion, the plical obliquely before the first discal, a blotch of blackish suffusion in the middle of the disc lying between and beneath the discal stigmata. There are three small ochreous-whitish spots on the costa towards the apex, interrupting the dark grey irroration. The hindwings are slaty-grey.[3]

References
  1. Becker, V.O. 1984: Gelechiidae. Pp. 44-52 in Heppner, J.B. (ed.), Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera: Checklist: Part I Micropterigoidea — Immoidea. Springer, Netherlands. doi:10.1007/978-94-009-6533-1 [See p. 46]
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  3. Meyrick, E. 1917: Descriptions of South American micro-Lepidoptera. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, [65(1)]: 1-52. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2311.1917.tb01401.x BHL [See p. 43]
  • Povolný, D. 1990: Gnorimoschemini of Peru and Bolivia (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae). Steenstrupia, 16: 153-223. [Not seen]


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