Ficulea

Ficulea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Ficulea
Walker, 1864
Species: F. blandulella
Binomial name
Ficulea blandulella
Walker, 1864

Ficulea is a genus of moth in the family Gelechiidae. It contains the species Ficulea blandulella, which is found in Sri Lanka and southern India.[1]

Adults are luteous, the forewings with two dark cupreous-brown slightly silvery bordered bands. The first band very much dilated hindward and the second marginal, dentate on its inner side, nearly connected with the second on the interior border.[2]

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