Brachmia resoluta

Brachmia resoluta is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1918.[1] It is found in the Bengal region of what was then British India.[2]

Brachmia resoluta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Gelechiidae
Genus:
Brachmia
Species:
B. resoluta
Binomial name
Brachmia resoluta
Meyrick, 1918

The wingspan is about 13 mm. The forewings are light greyish ochreous irrorated (sprinkled) with fuscous and with a dark fuscous dot on the base of the costa. The stigmata is dark fuscous, the plical beneath the first discal and there are almost marginal cloudy, dark fuscous dots around the posterior part of the costa and termen. The hindwings are pale grey.[3]

References
  1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Brachmia resoluta". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 19, 2018.
  2. Savela, Markku (December 31, 2018). "Brachmia resoluta Meyrick, 1918". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 18, 2020.
  3. Exotic Microlepidoptera. 2 (4): 113.


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