Phthorimaea involuta

Phthorimaea involuta
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Phthorimaea
Species: P. involuta
Binomial name
Phthorimaea involuta
Meyrick, 1917

Phthorimaea involuta is a moth in the Gelechiidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1917. It is found in Guyana.[1]

The wingspan is 9-11 mm. The forewings are grey-whitish or whitish-grey, irrorated with black and with a narrow oblique blackish bar from the costa near the base and a broader one at one-third, both terminated by small yellow-ochreous spots on the fold edged beneath by black marks, the second spot representing the plical stigma. The discal stigmata are yellow-ochreous, edged above and below by black spots, the first obliquely beyond the plical stigma, its margin separated by an ochreous mark from a small blackish spot on the costa above it, the margin of the second usually absorbed in a subquadrate blackish blotch on the costa above it, its lower margin sometimes forming a considerable spot. There is also a well-defined blackish apical blotch. The hindwings are dark grey, subhyaline in the disc anteriorly and towards the dorsum.[2]

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