Filatima glycyrhizaeella is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Washington, Arizona and Colorado.[1][2]
| Filatima glycyrhizaeella | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gelechiidae |
| Genus: | Filatima |
| Species: | F. glycyrhizaeella
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| Binomial name | |
| Filatima glycyrhizaeella (Chambers, 1877)
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The forewings are yellowish-ochreous, dusted densely with brown and somewhat with white along both margins, the dusted portion on the dorsal margin wider than that on the costal margin. The hindwings are pale leaden.[3]
The larvae feed on Glycyrrhiza lepidotae.
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- ^ Filatima at funet
- ^ mothphotographersgroup
- ^ Bull. U.S. Geol. Surv. 3 : 124
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