Filatima xanthuris

Filatima xanthuris is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, Manitoba, Alberta, British Columbia, Washington and Oregon.[1][2]

Filatima xanthuris
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Filatima
Species:
F. xanthuris
Binomial name
Filatima xanthuris
(Meyrick, 1927)
Synonyms
  • Gelechia xanthuris Meyrick, 1927

The wingspan is 20–24 mm. The forewings are fuscous, obscurely irrorated darker, sometimes with a short dark fuscous streak on the fold towards the base in females. The stigmata are cloudy, dark fuscous, the plical obliquely before the first discal, the second discal rather large, subtriangular or elongate, but all these in males obscure and sometimes hardly perceptible, in females more distinct. The apical area is often sprinkled whitish, with a small indistinct whitish spot on the costa at four-fifths and a faint angulated line sometimes perceptible. The hindwings are light bluish-grey.[3]

The larvae feed on Thermopsis pinetorum, Lupinus, Robinia and Vicia species.[4]

References
  1. Filatima at funet
  2. mothphotographersgroup
  3. Exot. Microlep. 3 (11): 346
  4. Hodges, R.W. & Adamski, D., 1997: The identity of Flatima ornatifimbriella (Clemens 1864) (Gelechioidea: Gelechiidae). Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society, 51 (1): 32-46. Full article: .


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