Gelechia trachydyta

Gelechia trachydyta
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Gelechia
Species: G. trachydyta
Binomial name
Gelechia trachydyta
(Meyrick, 1920)
Synonyms
  • Chelaria trachydyta Meyrick, 1920

Gelechia trachydyta is a moth of the Gelechiidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1920. It is found in southern India.[1]

The wingspan is 12-14 mm. The forewings are fuscous, irregularly irrorated dark fuscous, with several small scattered tufts of scales and semi-oval dark fuscous spots on the costa before the middle and at two-thirds. There are undefined elongate spots of dark fuscous suffusion or irroration in the disc before and beyond the middle, and above the tornus and cloudy dark marginal dots around the posterior part of the costa and termen. The hindwings are grey, thinly scaled anteriorly.[2]

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