Dactylethrella globulata is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1910.[1] It is found in Sri Lanka.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gelechiidae |
| Genus: | Dactylethrella |
| Species: | D. globulata
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| Binomial name | |
| Dactylethrella globulata (Meyrick, 1910)
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The wingspan is 11–12 mm. The forewings are whitish, tinged with brownish and sprinkled with dark fuscous and with three moderately large roundish fuscous spots in the disc at one-fourth, halfway and at two-thirds, sprinkled with darker, the first smaller and less marked. There is a suffused similar patch extending along the termen. The hindwings are grey.[3]
References
edit- ^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Dactylethrella globulata". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 20, 2018.
- ^ Savela, Markku, ed. (March 16, 2019). "Dactylethrella globulata (Meyrick, 1910)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 25, 2020.
- ^ Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 20 (2): 461.
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