Magonympha
Appearance
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Magonympha | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Gelechiidae |
Tribe: | Gnorimoschemini |
Genus: | Magonympha Meyrick, 1916 |
Species: | M. chrysocosma
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Binomial name | |
Magonympha chrysocosma Meyrick, 1916
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Magonympha is a genus of moth in the family Gelechiidae. It contains the species Magonympha chrysocosma, which is found in southern India.[1]
The wingspan is 10–13 mm. The forewings are bronzy-yellow-ochreous with four narrow silvery-white transverse fasciae, in the disc more silvery or in lowland specimens pale golden-metallic, more or less edged with dark fuscous irroration, somewhat dilated at the extremities, the first at one-third, the second in the middle, slightly oblique, the third at two-thirds and the fourth at five-sixths, narrowest and rather inwards-oblique. The hindwings are ochreous-whitish.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ funet.fi
- ^ Exot. Microlep. 1 (18): 572
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