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Faculta inaequalis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Gelechiidae
Genus:	Faculta
Species:	F. inaequalis
Binomial name
Faculta inaequalis (Busck, 1910)
Synonyms
Gelechia inaequalis Busck, 1910 Gelechia inaequalis Walsingham, 1911 (preocc. Busck, 1910) Gelechia anisectis Meyrick, 1923 Gelechia clistrodoma Meyrick, 1923

Faculta inaequalis is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in Mexico and the United States, where it has been recorded from California, Arizona and New Mexico.

The wingspan is about 13 mm. The forewings are ochreous-whitish speckled grey, more thinly on the basal third and with a small blackish dot beneath the costa near the base, and one raised beyond it in the disc. There is a hardly oblique narrow black fascia from the costa at one-third not reaching the dorsum, a faint rosy tinge beneath its extremity. The discal stigmata are very small, black, the second placed on the inner edge of a narrow transverse fascia of which the costal third is black, the discal is whitish, the dorsal rosy-ochreous and there is some indistinct rosy-ochreous suffusion towards the apex, as well as some groups of dark grey scales on the costa towards the apex. The hindwings are grey.

References

1. Faculta at funet
2. mothphotographersgroup
3. Exot. Microlep. 3 (1-2): 21

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