Merimnetria notata
Merimnetria notata | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Gelechiidae |
Genus: | Merimnetria |
Species: | M. notata |
Binomial name | |
Merimnetria notata (Walsingham, 1907) | |
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Merimnetria notata is a moth of the Gelechiidae family. It is endemic to Molokai, Hawaii.
The wingspan is about 14 mm. The forewings are whitish ocherous with a small blackish spot at the extreme base of the costa, a larger diffused spot on the fold near its base, a triangular costal patch before the middle, its apex reaching to the fold, a patch at the end of the cell and a smaller one on the costa before the apex with a series of almost connected blackish spots in the whitish ocherous terminal and costal cilia. The hindwings are pale rosy gray.[1]
The larvae possibly mine the leaves of Gouldia species. Leaf mines in Gouldia have been found on Molokai and are thought to belong to this species.
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