Sarotorna mesoleuca

Sarotorna mesoleuca
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Gelechiidae
Genus:	Sarotorna
Species:	S. mesoleuca
Binomial name
	Sarotorna mesoleuca; (Lower, 1900)
Synonyms
	Gelechia mesoleuca Lower, 1900; Athrips mesoleuca; Nothris dentata Lower, 1897; Xerometra dentata;

Sarotorna mesoleuca is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from New South Wales and Victoria.[1]

The wingspan is 14–16 mm (0.55–0.63 in). The forewings are dark golden-bronzy-fuscous with a rather broad white longitudinal streak above the middle from the base to the apex, posteriorly suffusedly dilated to reach the costa, the lower edge with irregular blackish indentations before and beyond the middle, the first triangular, the second rounded, representing the discal stigmata. The plical stigmata are elongate, suffused, blackish and very obliquely before the first discal. A rather broad dorsal streak of white suffusion is found from the base to the tornus, sometimes little marked. The hindwings are grey.[2]

References

Li, H.-h. & K. Sattler, 2012: A taxonomic revision of the genus Mesophleps Hübner, 1825 (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae). Zootaxa 3373: 1-82.
Meyrick, E. (1904). "Descriptions of Australian Micro-Lepidoptera". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 29 (part II [number 114]): 427. Retrieved 17 June 2020 – via Internet Archive.

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[1] Li, H.-h. & K. Sattler, 2012: A taxonomic revision of the genus Mesophleps Hübner, 1825 (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae). Zootaxa 3373: 1-82.

[2] Meyrick, E. (1904). "Descriptions of Australian Micro-Lepidoptera". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 29 (part II [number 114]): 427. Retrieved 17 June 2020 – via Internet Archive.