Merimnetria arcuata
| Merimnetria arcuata | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gelechiidae |
| Genus: | Merimnetria |
| Species: | M. arcuata |
| Binomial name | |
| Merimnetria arcuata (Walsingham, 1907) | |
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Merimnetria arcuata is a moth of the Gelechiidae family. It is endemic to Oahu, Hawaii.
The wingspan is about 12 mm. The forewings are whitish ocherous, gradually suffused from one-third with dull olive-brown, leaving a tornal, and a smaller opposite costal patch of the pale ground color. There is a minute dark spot is visible in the fold a little beyond its middle. The hindwings are brownish gray.[1]
The larvae feed on Gouldia species. They mine the leaves of their host plant.
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