Pexicopia desmanthes

Pexicopia desmanthes
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Gelechiidae
Genus:	Pexicopia
Species:	P. desmanthes
Binomial name
	Pexicopia desmanthes; (Lower, 1898)
Synonyms
	Gelechia desmanthes Lower, 1898;

Pexicopia desmanthes is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Oswald Bertram Lower in 1898. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Queensland and New South Wales.^[1]

The wingspan is 9–13 mm (0.35–0.51 in). The forewings are whitish-ochreous rosy tinged and with four moderate dark bronzy-fuscous fasciae, the first basal, the second before the middle, the third beyond the middle, the fourth apical, connected in the middle with the third by a more or less defined bar. The hindwings are grey.^[2]

References

^ Savela, Markku (8 February 2019). "Pexicopia desmanthes (Lower, 1898)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved 10 July 2020.
^ Meyrick, E. (1904). "Descriptions of Australian Micro-Lepidoptera". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 29 (part II [number 114]): 309 – via Internet Archive.

This article on a moth of the subfamily Apatetrinae is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

[1] Savela, Markku (8 February 2019). "Pexicopia desmanthes (Lower, 1898)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved 10 July 2020.

[2] Meyrick, E. (1904). "Descriptions of Australian Micro-Lepidoptera". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 29 (part II [number 114]): 309 – via Internet Archive.

[1]

[2]