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Faculta inaequalis

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Faculta inaequalis
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F. inaequalis
Binomial name
Faculta inaequalis
(Busck, 1910)
Synonyms
  • Gelechia inaequalis Busck, 1910
  • Gelechia inaequalis Walsingham, 1911 (preocc. Busck, 1910)
  • Gelechia anisectis Meyrick, 1923
  • Gelechia clistrodoma Meyrick, 1923

Faculta inaequalis is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in Mexico and the United States, where it has been recorded from California, Arizona and New Mexico.[1][2]

The wingspan is about 13 mm. The forewings are ochreous-whitish speckled grey, more thinly on the basal third and with a small blackish dot beneath the costa near the base, and one raised beyond it in the disc. There is a hardly oblique narrow black fascia from the costa at one-third not reaching the dorsum, a faint rosy tinge beneath its extremity. The discal stigmata are very small, black, the second placed on the inner edge of a narrow transverse fascia of which the costal third is black, the discal is whitish, the dorsal rosy-ochreous and there is some indistinct rosy-ochreous suffusion towards the apex, as well as some groups of dark grey scales on the costa towards the apex. The hindwings are grey.[3]

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