Biology:Toxotacma
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Short description: Genus of moths
Toxotacma | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Gelechiidae |
Subfamily: | Gelechiinae |
Genus: | Toxotacma Meyrick, 1929 |
Species: | T. meditans
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Binomial name | |
Toxotacma meditans Meyrick, 1929
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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
Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxotacma.
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