Biology:Toxotacma

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Short description: Genus of moths

Toxotacma
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Subfamily: Gelechiinae
Genus: Toxotacma
Meyrick, 1929
Species:
T. meditans
Binomial name
Toxotacma meditans
Meyrick, 1929

Toxotacma is a genus of moth in the family Gelechiidae. It contains the species Toxotacma meditans, which is found in India (Assam).[1]

The wingspan is about 10 mm. The forewings are dark fuscous minutely speckled whitish, darker and blackish-sprinkled towards the costa and termen. There is a group of raised blackish and dark fuscous scales towards the tornus. There is an undefined spot of yellow-ochreous suffusion towards the apex. The hindwings are rather dark grey.[2]

References

Wikidata ☰ Q7830475 entry