Monochroa disconotella

Monochroa disconotella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Monochroa
Species: M. disconotella
Binomial name
Monochroa disconotella
(Chambers, 1878)
Synonyms
  • Gelechia disconotella Chambers, 1878

Monochroa disconotella is a moth of the Gelechiidae family. It was described by Chambers in 1878. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Kentucky, Maine, New Hampshire and Ohio.[1][2]

Adults are pale fuscous, or rather ochreous-yellow, irrorated with fuscous, with a faint silky-roseate hue, and with a longitudinal-elliptical brown spot at the end of the cell.[3]

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