Biology:Filatima serotinella
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gelechiidae |
| Genus: | Filatima |
| Species: | F. serotinella
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| Filatima serotinella (Busck, 1903)
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Filatima serotinella is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Alabama, Alberta, Arkansas, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana , Kansas , Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee , Texas and West Virginia.[1][2]
The wingspan is 16–21 mm. The forewings are dark, black and white scales irregularly mixed, but the black prevailing. There are dark-brown scales in a narrow longitudinal streak along, but below the costal edge, giving that part of the wing a perceptible chocolate-brown shade. At the end of this streak, at the apical fourth, the white scales congregate in an ill-defined costal white spot, which is connected with an opposite equally ill-defined dorsal white spot by a wavering interrupted narrow white fascia. The hindwings are dark shining fuscous.[3] Adults are on wing from March to October.
The larvae feed on Prunus serotina.[4]
References
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Wikidata ☰ Q13635975 entry
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