Aristotelia pantalaena

Aristotelia pantalaena is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Walsingham in 1911. It is found in Mexico (Tabasco).[1]

Aristotelia pantalaena
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Aristotelia
Species:
A. pantalaena
Binomial name
Aristotelia pantalaena
(Walsingham, 1911)
Synonyms
  • Untomia pantalaena Walsingham, 1911

The wingspan is about 10 mm. The forewings are brownish ochreous, paler along the costa, with a tawny suffusion spreading from the base below the middle to the apex and dorsum, and minutely speckled with blackish scales. At the commencement of the costal cilia is a blackish spot. There is a smaller one in the middle of the fold and a very small one at the base of the costa, and a faint indication of another a little beyond the end of the cell. A few blackish scales are distributed around the obtuse apex and obliquely rounded termen before the brownish ochreous cilia. The hindwings are dull brownish fuscous.[2]

References
  1. funet.fi
  2. Biol. centr.-amer. Lep. Heterocera 4 : 78 Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.


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