Aristotelia cynthia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Aristotelia
Species:
A. cynthia
Binomial name
Aristotelia cynthia
Meyrick, 1917

Aristotelia cynthia is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1917. It is found in Peru.[1]

The wingspan is 10–12 mm. The forewings are white irrorated (sprinkled) with dark fuscous, the dorsal half suffused with grey and partially mixed with ochreous. There are broad blackish-fuscous oblique bars from the costa at one-sixth and one-third to the fold, the second margined beneath by a brownish-ochreous mark. A subtriangular dark fuscous blotch is found on the costa beyond the middle, termmated beneath by a brownish-ochreous mark. There is also a suffused dark fuscous apical blotch, sometimes connected with preceding in the disc but separated from it on the costa by a whitish spot. The hindwings are dark slaty grey, pale in the cell.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Savela, Markku (February 7, 2019). "Aristotelia cynthia Meyrick, 1917". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 16, 2020.
  2. ↑ Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. 1917 (1): 32. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.


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