Biology:Magonympha
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Short description: Genus of moths
| Magonympha | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gelechiidae |
| Tribe: | Gnorimoschemini |
| Genus: | Magonympha Meyrick, 1916 |
| Species: | M. chrysocosma
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| Binomial name | |
| Magonympha chrysocosma Meyrick, 1916
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Magonympha is a genus of moth in the family Gelechiidae. It contains the species Magonympha chrysocosma, which is found in southern India .[1]
The wingspan is 10–13 mm. The forewings are bronzy-yellow-ochreous with four narrow silvery-white transverse fasciae, in the disc more silvery or in lowland specimens pale golden-metallic, more or less edged with dark fuscous irroration, somewhat dilated at the extremities, the first at one-third, the second in the middle, slightly oblique, the third at two-thirds and the fourth at five-sixths, narrowest and rather inwards-oblique. The hindwings are ochreous-whitish.[2]
References
- ↑ funet.fi
- ↑ Exot. Microlep. 1 (18): 572
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Wikidata ☰ Q6732349 entry
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