Carposina maritima

Carposina maritima
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Carposinidae
Genus: Carposina
Species: C. maritima
Binomial name
Carposina maritima
Ponomarenko, 1999

Carposina maritima is a moth in the Carposinidae family. It was described by Ponomarenko in 1999. It is found in the Russian Far East.

The wingspan is 13-15.5 mm. The groundcolour of the forewings is white, with a pattern consisting of seven indistinct grey strokes on the costal margin and five concolorous small spots at the end of the veins on the termen and a grey spot at the end of the cell. The hindwings are grey in males and light-grey in females.[1]

References


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Friday, August 08, 2014. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.