Merimnetria elegantior
| Merimnetria elegantior | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gelechiidae |
| Genus: | Merimnetria |
| Species: | M. elegantior |
| Binomial name | |
| Merimnetria elegantior (Walsingham, 1907) | |
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Merimnetria elegantior is a moth of the Gelechiidae family. It is endemic to the islands of Oahu and possibly Hawaii.
The wingspan is about 13 mm. The forewings are cinereous (ash gray), slightly suffused with gray along the dorsum and toward the apex. There is a large brown costal blotch before the middle, terminating in a bright ferruginous patch on the fold. This is followed by two spots, one before, the other at the end of the cell, brown on their upper half, bright ferruginous beneath. Some pale cinereous mottling extends around the apex on the costa and termen. The hindwings are grayish.[1]
The larvae feed on the fruit of Gouldia macrocarpa.
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