Phthorimaea perfidiosa

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

Phthorimaea perfidiosa is a moth in the Gelechiidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1917. It is found in Colombia and on the Galapagos Islands.[1]

The wingspan is about 10 mm. The forewings are grey-whitish sprinkled with grey and dark fuscous, more strongly irrorated along the costa and with the plical stigma rather large and blackish. The hindwings are bluish-grey with a strong ochreous-yellowish expansible hairpencil from the base lying along the costa to beyond the middle.[2]

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