Dactylethrella candida

Dactylethrella candida
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Dactylethrella
Species: D. candida
Binomial name
Dactylethrella candida
(Stainton, 1859)
Synonyms
  • Anarsia candida Stainton, 1859
  • Prays plagiferella Walker, 1863
  • Dactylethra tetroctas Meyrick, 1906

Dactylethrella candida is a moth in the Gelechiidae family. It was described by Stainton in 1859.[1] It is found in Sri Lanka and southern India.[2]

The wingspan is 14-15 mm. The forewings are ochreous-white with a dark fuscous dot towards the costa near the base and two transversely placed in the disc at one-fifth. There are about eight short oblique brown strigulae on the costa. There are transverse undefined patches of ochreous-brown suffusion in the disc at one-third, beyond the middle and towards the termen, the first narrow, second broader, reaching the costa and the third largest, somewhat mixed with black scales and bounded by a grey terminal streak. Between these are two lilac-grey sometimes whitish-centred irregularly eight-shaped spots in the disc before the middle and at two-thirds, the first rather oblique and the second shorter. The hindwings are fuscous-whitish.[3]

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