Eulamprotes nigromaculella

Eulamprotes nigromaculella is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in Spain, France, Italy, Greece, Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily, Crete, Cyprus and Ukraine.[2]

Eulamprotes nigromaculella
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Eulamprotes
Species:
E. nigromaculella
Binomial name
Eulamprotes nigromaculella
(Millière, 1872)[1]
Synonyms
  • Gelechia nigromaculella Millière, 1872
  • Monochroa nigromaculella
  • Bryotropha angustipennis Rebel, 1931
  • Eulamprotes donskoffi Nel & Luquet, 1997
  • Doryphora punctatella Staudinger, 1879
  • Aristotelia morphochrona Walsingham, 1900
  • Aristotelia jactatrix Meyrick, 1926
  • Aristotelia craterotypa Meyrick, 1938

The wingspan is about 12 mm. The forewings are whitish irrorated (speckled) dark grey with a small blackish spot on the costa near the base, one at one-fifth, one on the fold slightly beyond this, and one beneath the costa at one-third. The stigmata form oval black spots, the plical very obliquely before the first discal. There is a dark grey spot on the costa at two-thirds and four small cloudy whitish spots on the costa beyond this. The hindwings are light bluish-grey.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Karsholt, Ole & Twan Rutten, 2005, the genus Bryotropha Heinemann in the western palaearctic (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae), Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 148: 77-207. Abstract and full article: [1]
  2. ^ Fauna Europaea
  3. ^ Description of Aristotelia jactatrix in Exot. Microlep. 3 (9): 272   This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.