Bryotropha plebejella
| Bryotropha plebejella | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gelechiidae |
| Genus: | Bryotropha |
| Species: | B. plebejella |
| Binomial name | |
| Bryotropha plebejella (Zeller, 1847)[1] | |
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Bryotropha plebejella is a moth of the Gelechiidae family. It is found in Portugal, Spain, southern France, Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily, Croatia, the Republic of Macedonia, Greece, the Aegean Islands, Crete, Cyprus, Turkey, Syria, Israel, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Madeira and the Canary Islands.
The wingspan is 10–13 mm. The forewings are brown, heavily mixed with ochreous and often with an orange tinge. The hindwings are pale ochreous at the base, but darker towards the apex.[2] Adults have been recorded on wing from April to late September, probably in two generations per year.
References
- ↑ Fauna Europaea
- ↑ 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:
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