Misplaced Pages

Calliprora platyxipha

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
Species of moth

Calliprora platyxipha
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Calliprora
Species: C. platyxipha
Binomial name
Calliprora platyxipha
Meyrick, 1922

Calliprora platyxipha is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in Brazil (Amazonas, Para).

The wingspan is 10–12 mm. The forewings are dark fuscous with a broad ochreous-whitish pointed supramedian streak from the base to near the middle, in females narrower and with a short whitish line above its posterior portion. There is a shorter whitish submedian line from the base, and a much shorter dorsal line towards the base. There a rather oblique triangular whitish spot on the middle of the dorsum reaching half across the wing, in females narrower and in males an oblique whitish wedge-shaped streak from the costa about two-thirds, beneath this a longitudinal line, then a wedge-shaped spot, then two longitudinal lines, and finally one on the dorsum, these markings in females smaller and less developed. There is an angulated purple-grey subterminal line, in females whitish at extremities, in males stronger and whitish on the costal and dorsal thirds. There is a ferruginous-brownish streak from the costa beyond this running to the apex, sometimes extended by obscure suffusion along the termen. The hindwings are dark fuscous.

References

  1. Calliprora at funet
  2. Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 1922 : 68 Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
Taxon identifiers
Calliprora platyxipha


This article on a moth of the tribe Gelechiini is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Categories: