Calliprora peritura

Calliprora peritura
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Calliprora
Species: C. peritura
Binomial name
Calliprora peritura
Meyrick, 1922

Calliprora peritura is a moth of the Gelechiidae family. It is found in Brazil (Para).[1]

The wingspan is about 9 mm. The forewings are rather dark grey with an indistinct dark fuscous streak rising obliquely from the middle of the dorsum, curved in the disc to the angle of the subterminal line. There is an angulated violet-grey subterminal line, whitish towards the extremities, edged with dark fuscous suffusion anteriorly, the wing beyond this ferruginous-brown. The hindwings are dark grey.[2]

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