Thiotricha glenias

Thiotricha glenias is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1908. It is found in Sri Lanka.[1]

Thiotricha glenias
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T. glenias
Binomial name
Thiotricha glenias
Meyrick, 1908

The wingspan is 8–10 mm. The forewings are silvery white, more or less tinged with ochreous and with the apical two-fifths orange ochreous anteriorly suffused. There is a grey mark from the dorsum before the tornus, angulated inwards near the dorsum, then outwardly oblique, reaching more than halfway across the wing, a round black dot at the apex, and another on the termen, each preceded by a whitish dot. The hindwings are whitish grey, thinly scaled, the apex tinged with orange and with a blackish apical dot.[2]

References

  1. Savela, Markku, ed. (February 7, 2019). "Thiotricha glenias Meyrick, 1908". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved September 11, 2020.
  2. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 18 (2): 439.


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