Blastovalva paltobola
| Blastovalva paltobola | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gelechiidae |
| Genus: | Blastovalva |
| Species: | B. paltobola |
| Binomial name | |
| Blastovalva paltobola (Meyrick, 1921) | |
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Blastovalva paltobola is a moth of the Gelechiidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1921. It is found in South Africa.[1][2]
The wingspan is about 9 mm. The forewings are shining white with the costal edge dark fuscous towards the base and with a very oblique elongate dark fuscous mark towards the dorsum before the middle. There is a dark fuscous line running from the disc beyond the middle to the apical patch, where it meets a similar shorter line from an irregular suffused spot on the tornus. A patch is found along the apical fourth of the costa, consisting of three oblique wedge-shaped dark brown spots separated by white strigulae, the second strigula limiting a blackish apical dot, and preceded by two minute linear black dots surrounded by pale ochreous before the termen. The hindwings are grey.[3]