Biology:Aspades hutchinsonella

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Short description: Species of moth

Aspades hutchinsonella
Pl.4-fig.30-Aspades hutchinsonella (Walsingham, 1891) (Gelechia).jpg
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Aspades
Species:
A. hutchinsonella
Binomial name
Aspades hutchinsonella
(Walsingham, 1891)
Synonyms
  • Gelechia hutchinsonella Walsingham, 1891

Aspades hutchinsonella is a species of moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Walsingham in 1891.[1] It is found in Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe.[2]

The wingspan is 10–14 mm. The forewings are stramineous, with a brownish fuscous spot at the extreme base of the costa, then shaded with greyish fuscous along the costal margin nearly to the commencement of the costo-apical cilia. Along the centre of this costal shade is a line of chestnut scales reaching to half the length of the wing. Contiguous to the lower edge of the costal shade, but before the middle, is a distinct black spot. A conspicuous greyish fuscous patch lies on the dorsal margin contiguous to the anal angle, its rounded inner edge narrowly margined by a line of black scales, its outer extremity touched with chestnut. This patch is connected at the anal angle with a shade of the same colour, which follows the apical margin to the apex, interrupted only by a small marginal spot of the pale stramineous ground colour, immediately below the apex, by which the darker shade appears to be deflected inwards. The hindwings are grey.[3]

References

  1. funet.fi
  2. Afro Moths
  3. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1891 (1) : 93 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

Wikidata ☰ Q13400242 entry