Leuronoma oenochyta is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1921. It is found in Zimbabwe and Namibia.[1][2]

Leuronoma oenochyta
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Leuronoma
Species:
L. oenochyta
Binomial name
Leuronoma oenochyta
(Meyrick, 1921)
Synonyms
  • Acompsia oenochyta Meyrick, 1921

The wingspan is about 14 mm. The forewings are dull rosy purplish irrorated (sprinkled) with dark fuscous and with a blackish subcostal dash from the base followed by a yellow-ochreous elongate mark. There is a yellow-ochreous streak along the fold from the base to beyond the plical stigma, interrupted by a blackish elongate spot midway between the plical stigma and the base, and by the plical stigma. The stigmata are moderately large and blackish, the plical obliquely before the first discal, the discal interrupting a yellow-ochreous longitudinal streak beginning some little way before the first and extending to just beyond the second. There are opposite cloudy yellow-ochreous spots at three-fourths of the costa and tornus and a small ochreous-yellow apical spot, as well as one on the termen beneath it. The hindwings are grey.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Savela, Markku, ed. (June 3, 2018). "Leuronoma oenochyta (Meyrick, 1921)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved September 6, 2020.
  2. ^ De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2019). "Leuronoma oenochyta (Meyrick, 1921)". Afromoths. Retrieved September 6, 2020.
  3. ^ Meyrick, E. (July 14, 1921). "Descriptions of South African Micro-Lepidoptera". Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 8 (2): 78 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.   This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.