Filatima rhypodes

Filatima rhypodes is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in Mexico (Sonora).[1]

Filatima rhypodes
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Filatima
Species:
F. rhypodes
Binomial name
Filatima rhypodes
(Walsingham, 1911)
Synonyms
  • Gelechia rhypodes Walsingham, 1911

The wingspan is about 14 mm. The forewings are stone-white, sparsely sprinkled beyond the basal fourth with groups of blackish scales, among which a discal spot before the middle, a spot at the end of the cell and another in the fold, slightly preceding the first, are scarcely more conspicuous than the smaller groups and scattered scales which occur towards the tornus and along the termen, spreading slightly into the cilia. The hindwings are whitish grey, slightly darkening toward the apex.[2]

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