Apotoforma rotundipennis

Apotoforma rotundipennis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Tortricidae
Genus: Apotoforma
Species: A. rotundipennis
Binomial name
Apotoforma rotundipennis
(Walsingham, 1897)[1]
Synonyms
  • Oxygrapha rotundipennis Walsingham, 1897

Apotoforma rotundipennis is a species of moth of the Tortricidae family. It is found on the Virgin Islands.

The wingspan is about 11 mm. The forewings are tawny reddish, with a faintly indicated oblique greyish-fuscous shade from before the middle of the costa, extending to the lower edge of the cell. There is a similar curved shade before the apex and waved lines of sublustrous scales on the outer half of the wing and there is a small black dot at the end of the cell. The hindwings are greyish fuscous.[2]

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