Coleotechnites petulans
| Coleotechnites petulans | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gelechiidae |
| Genus: | Coleotechnites |
| Species: | C. petulans |
| Binomial name | |
| Coleotechnites petulans (Meyrick, 1917) | |
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Coleotechnites petulans is a moth of the Gelechiidae family. It is found in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.[1]
The wingspan is 9-11 mm. The forewings are white, irregularly irrorated with fuscous and dark fuscous, more thinly towards the dorsum anteriorly. There is an oblique blackish bar from the costa at one-sixth to the fold, as well as blackish spots on the costa before the middle and at two-thirds and a black subcostal dot at one-fourth. The stigmata are black, sometimes ringed with white, the plical rather obliquely before the first discal, an additional dot between the second discal and the dorsum. A small blackish spot is found on the dorsum before tornus and there are three blackish dots on the costa towards the apex, the apical area is darker-suffused. The hindwings are light grey, in males thinly scaled and whitish-tinged anteriorly.[2]
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