Triclonella elliptica is a moth in the family Cosmopterigidae. It is found in Guyana and Brazil.[1]
| Triclonella elliptica | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Cosmopterigidae |
| Genus: | Triclonella |
| Species: | T. elliptica
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| Binomial name | |
| Triclonella elliptica Meyrick, 1916
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The wingspan is 18–20 mm. The forewings are rather deep ochreous-bronze with a slightly incurved white line from two-thirds of the costa to three-fourths of the dorsum, the area beyond this wholly blackish, finely irrorated with white except on a roundish blotch occupying the upper two-thirds of the termen. The terminal edge is finely white. The hindwings are grey becoming blackish-grey posteriorly, subhyaline in the cell and towards the base beneath the cell.[2]
References
edit- ^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Triclonella elliptica". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 14, 2018.
- ^ Exot. Microlep. 1 (17): 543
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