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Chlorolychnis

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Genus of moths

Chlorolychnis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Subfamily: Gelechiinae
Genus: Chlorolychnis
Meyrick, 1925
Species: C. agnatella
Binomial name
Chlorolychnis agnatella
(Walker, 1864)
Synonyms
  • Gelechia agnatella Walker, 1864

Chlorolychnis is a genus of moths in the family Gelechiidae. It contains the species Chlorolychnis agnatella, which is found in Indonesia (Java) and Sri Lanka.

Adults are cinereous-brown, the forewings with many oblique parallel darker lines and with the marginal space speckled, without lines. The exterior border is convex and slightly oblique. The hindwings are cinereous.

References

  1. funet.fi
  2. List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 29: 633 Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
Taxon identifiers
Chlorolychnis


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