Fascista bimaculella

Fascista bimaculella is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Florida, Kentucky, Maine, Ohio and Texas.[1][2]

Fascista bimaculella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Fascista
Species:
F. bimaculella
Binomial name
Fascista bimaculella
(Chambers, 1872)
Synonyms
  • Depressaria bimaculella Chambers, 1872
  • Gelechia (Lita) ternariella Zeller, 1873
  • Gelechia sylvaecolella Chambers, 1878

The forewings are shining dark purplish-brown or black with a large white spot on the disc just beyond the middle, and a white spot or streak which starts from the beginning of the costal cilia, but does not reach the dorsal margin.[3]

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