Macrenches clerica
| Macrenches clerica | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gelechiidae |
| Genus: | Macrenches |
| Species: | M. clerica |
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| Macrenches clerica (Rosenstock, 1885)[1] | |
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Macrenches clerica is a moth of the Gelechiidae family. It is known from Australia, where it has been recorded from Tasmania and south-eastern mainland Australia.
The wingspan is 15-18 mm. The forewings are dark bronzy-fuscous with a broad ochreous-whitish costal streak from the base to near the apex, mixed with light fuscous towards the costa from the middle to near the extremity. There is a similar dorsal streak from near the base to the termen near the apex, more or less suffused with fuscous posteriorly, sometimes tinged with brassy-yellowish on the upper edge anteriorly. The hindwings are grey or pale grey, paler anteriorly.[2]
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