Filatima biminimaculella

Filatima biminimaculella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Gelechiidae
Genus:	Filatima
Species:	F. biminimaculella
Binomial name
Filatima biminimaculella (Chambers, 1880)
Synonyms
Gelechia biminimaculella Chambers, 1880 Fascista biminimaculella

Filatima biminimaculella is a moth of the Gelechiidae family. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas.^[1][2]

Adults are similar to Filatima pseudacaciella, but are a little darker and lack the white dusting in the apical part of the wing. There is also a small ochreous spot on each side of the apex of the thorax. Otherwise, the species resemble closely being brown with a faint purplish hue, more or less distinctly streaked longitudinally, with ochreous within the costal margin.^[3]

References

1. Filatima at funet
2. mothphotographersgroup
3. J. Cincinnati Soc. nat. Hist. 2 (4) : 183