Oxylechia
| Oxylechia | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gelechiidae |
| Subfamily: | Gelechiinae |
| Genus: | Oxylechia Meyrick, 1917 |
| Species: | O. confirmata
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| Binomial name | |
| Oxylechia confirmata Meyrick, 1917
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Oxylechia is a genus of moth in the family Gelechiidae. It contains the species Oxylechia confirmata, which is found in Colombia.[1]
The wingspan is about 8 mm. The forewings are white, tinged with ochreous-yellowish in the disc, more strongly and sprinkled with fuscous posteriorly. The markings are dark fuscous, with some black scales on their edges, and margined with clear white. There is a basal patch, the edge running from one-fourth of the costa, straight, oblique. There is also an elongate narrow patch extending along the costa from before the middle to the apex, anteriorly pointed and preceded by a slight blackish strigula, beneath with slight prominences at the middle and two-thirds of the wing, tipped with black scales probably representing the discal stigmata. A small white costal mark intersects this at four-fifths and there are narrow elongate brownish spots sprinkled with black on the dorsum beyond the middle and on the tornus. There is also a black apical dot ringed with white. The hindwings are whitish-grey.[2]
References
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- ^ Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1917 (1) : 39
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