Dactylethrella globulata

Dactylethrella globulata is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1910.[1] It is found in Sri Lanka.[2]

Dactylethrella globulata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Gelechiidae
Genus:
Dactylethrella
Species:
D. globulata
Binomial name
Dactylethrella globulata
(Meyrick, 1910)
Synonyms
  • Dactylethra globulata Meyrick, 1910

The wingspan is 11–12 mm. The forewings are whitish, tinged with brownish and sprinkled with dark fuscous and with three moderately large roundish fuscous spots in the disc at one-fourth, halfway and at two-thirds, sprinkled with darker, the first smaller and less marked. There is a suffused similar patch extending along the termen. The hindwings are grey.[3]

References
  1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Dactylethrella globulata". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 20, 2018.
  2. Savela, Markku, ed. (March 16, 2019). "Dactylethrella globulata (Meyrick, 1910)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 25, 2020.
  3. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 20 (2): 461.


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