Faristenia hirowatarii

Faristenia hirowatarii
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Faristenia
Species: F. hirowatarii
Binomial name
Faristenia hirowatarii
Ueda, 2012

Faristenia hirowatarii is a moth in the Gelechiidae family.[1] It is found in Japan (Honshu).[2]

The length of the forewings is 5.6-6.9 mm for males and 5.7-7.2 mm for females. The forewings are whitish, scattered with pale fuscous and with a blackish dot on the costa at the base. There are five fuscous marks on the costa, as well as a fuscous dot on the subcosta near the base and a fuscous dot at two-thirds. There are irregular fuscous streaks on the plical fold and the tornus is somewhat suffused with pale fuscous. A series of fuscous dots is found on the margin from. The hindwings are light grey, irrorated with pale brownish grey.[3]

References

  1. "LepIndex". nhm.ac.uk. Retrieved 2015-06-03.
  2. Faristenia at funet
  3. Ueda, T., 2012: Additional two new species of the genus Faristenia Ponomarenko (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae) from Japan. Transactions of the Lepidopterological Society of Japan 63(2): 65-69. Abstract:
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