Aristotelia cynthia is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1917. It is found in Peru.[1]
| Aristotelia cynthia | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gelechiidae |
| Genus: | Aristotelia |
| Species: | A. cynthia
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| Binomial name | |
| Aristotelia cynthia Meyrick, 1917
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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 edit
- ^ Savela, Markku (February 7, 2019). "Aristotelia cynthia Meyrick, 1917". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 16, 2020.
- ^ Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. 1917 (1): 32.
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