Faristenia nakatanii

Faristenia nakatanii is a moth in the family Gelechiidae.[1] It is found in Japan (Kyushu, Ryukyus).[2]

Faristenia nakatanii
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F. nakatanii
Binomial name
Faristenia nakatanii
Ueda, 2012

The length of the forewings is 5.6–6 mm for males and 5.6-6.3 mm for females. The forewings are dark brownish grey, irrorated with whitish grey and the costa broadly sprinkled with whitish grey from the base to before the middle and margined with fuscous beyond the middle. There are two obscure narrow fuscous short streaks at one-sixth and one-fourth. The hindwings are pale brownish grey, scattered with ochreous and with the veins darker than the ground color.

The larvae feed on Distylium racemosum.[3]

References

  1. Beccaloni, George; et al., eds. (February 2005). "Scientific name search". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum, London. Retrieved 2015-06-03.
  2. Faristenia at funet
  3. Ueda, T. (2012). "Additional two new species of the genus Faristenia Ponomarenko (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae) from Japan". Transactions of the Lepidopterological Society of Japan. 63 (2): 65–69. doi:10.18984/lepid.63.2_65.


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