Ptocheuusa albiramis

Ptocheuusa albiramis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Ptocheuusa
Species: P. albiramis
Binomial name
Ptocheuusa albiramis
(Meyrick, 1923)
Synonyms
  • Apatetris albiramis Meyrick, 1923

Ptocheuusa albiramis is a moth of the Gelechiidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1923. It is found in Egypt.[1]

The wingspan is about 9 mm. The forewings are light yellow-ochreous with irregular white streaks along all margins of the cell and veins 7-11, partially sprinkled with dark fuscous scales on the edges, and with a slender similar streak along the dorsum and termen throughout. There is an undefined streak of white suffusion along vein 1b. The hindwings are grey-whitish.[2]

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