Eulamprotes helotella
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Eulamprotes helotella (Staudinger, 1859)[1]
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Eulamprotes helotella is a moth of the Gelechiidae family. It is found in Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, Greece, Corsica, Sardinia, and Crete.[2] It is also found in North Africa.
The wingspan is 16-17 mm. The forewings are light fuscous, more or less densely irrorated (speckled) with whitish and darker fuscous and with a cloudy, obscure, dark fuscous, sub-elongate dot in the middle of the disc, and a second before three-fourths. The hindwings are grey.[3]
References
- ^ Karsholt, Ole & Twan Rutten, 2005, the genus Bryotropha Heinemann in the western palaearctic (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae), Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 148: 77-207. Abstract and full article: [1]
- ^ Fauna Europaea
- ^ Description of Apodia doliodes in Ent. mon. Mag. 27 : 55
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