Exoteleia ithycosma

Exoteleia ithycosma is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in Guyana.[1]

Exoteleia ithycosma
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Exoteleia
Species:
E. ithycosma
Binomial name
Exoteleia ithycosma
(Meyrick, 1914)
Synonyms
  • Strobisia ithycosma Meyrick, 1914
  • Parelectroides ithycosma

The wingspan is about 10 mm. The forewings are dark fuscous with four blue-leaden-metallic transverse streaks, the first towards the base, rather thick, the second beyond one-third, slender, white on the costa, the third beyond the middle, not reaching the costa, interrupted below the middle, the fourth submarginal, slightly sinuate inwards below the middle. There is a white dot on the costa before two-thirds, edged beneath by a leaden-metallic dot, where a fine straight pale brownish line runs to the dorsum at three-fourths. There is a slender pale brownish streak along the termen. The hindwings are dark fuscous.[2]

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