Aristotelia sphenomorpha

Aristotelia sphenomorpha
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Aristotelia
Species: A. sphenomorpha
Binomial name
Aristotelia sphenomorpha
Meyrick, 1930

Aristotelia sphenomorpha is a moth of the Gelechiidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1930. It is found in northern Vietnam.[1]

The wingspan is 9-11 mm. The forewings are fuscous speckled whitish, the costal half suffused whitish from the base to beyond the middle or two-thirds, the costa itself irregularly mottled or spotted dark fuscous. There is a blackish elongate mark on the base of the costa and a large blackish dot bebeath the fold at one-fifth. The stigmata are blackish, the plical forming a large elongate flattened triangular spot, the first discal very small, obliquely beyond the plical, the second moderate. The hindwings are grey.[2]

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