Eulamprotes nigromaculella

Eulamprotes nigromaculella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Gelechiidae
Genus:	Eulamprotes
Species:	E. nigromaculella
Binomial name
Eulamprotes nigromaculella (Millière, 1872)[1]
Synonyms
Gelechia nigromaculella Millière, 1872 Monochroa nigromaculella Bryotropha angustipennis Rebel, 1931 Eulamprotes donskoffi Nel & Luquet, 1997 Doryphora punctatella Staudinger, 1879 Aristotelia morphochrona Walsingham, 1900 Aristotelia jactatrix Meyrick, 1926 Aristotelia craterotypa Meyrick, 1938

Eulamprotes nigromaculella is a moth of the Gelechiidae family. It is found in Spain, France, Italy, Greece, Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily, Crete, Cyprus and Ukraine.^[2]

The wingspan is about 12 mm. The forewings are whitish irrorated (speckled) dark grey with a small blackish spot on the costa near the base, one at one-fifth, one on the fold slightly beyond this, and one beneath the costa at one-third. The stigmata form oval black spots, the plical very obliquely before the first discal. There is a dark grey spot on the costa at two-thirds and four small cloudy whitish spots on the costa beyond this. The hindwings are light bluish-grey.^[3]

References

1. 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:
2. Fauna Europaea
3. Description of Aristotelia jactatrix in Exot. Microlep. 3 (9): 272