| Locharcha | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gelechiidae |
| Subfamily: | Gelechiinae |
| Genus: | Locharcha Meyrick, 1923 |
| Species: | L. emicans |
| Binomial name | |
| Locharcha emicans Meyrick, 1923 | |
Locharcha is a genus of moths in the family Gelechiidae. It contains the species Locharcha emicans, which is found in Peru.
The wingspan is about 14 mm. The forewings are dark ashy-fuscous slightly speckled purple-whitish and with a moderate pointed whitish-ochreous dorsal streak from the base to the tornus, slightly speckled blackish, the upper edge margined with blackish suffusion from the base to an obtuse postmedian prominence. There is a black streak from the disc before the middle to the apex, interrupted beyond the middle by a spot of brown suffusion, at the apex expanded into a blotch including a small light ochreous spot. There is also an oblique whitish strigula on the costa at three-fourths. The hindwings are rather dark grey.
References
- "Locharcha". ftp.funet.fi. Retrieved 2015-08-24.
- Exot. Microlep. 3 (1-2): 18
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| Locharcha | |
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