Galomecalpa parsoni

Galomecalpa parsoni is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Ecuador (Pichincha Province) and Peru.[2]

Galomecalpa parsoni
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G. parsoni
Binomial name
Galomecalpa parsoni
Razowski & Pelz, 2006[1]

The wingspan is 25 millimetres (0.98 in). The ground colour of the forewings is cream, suffused and strigulated (finely streaked) with greyish brown. The hindwings are cream, suffused and strigulated with brownish.

Etymology

The species is named in honour of Mr Richard Parsons, who supported fieldwork of the authors at the Bellavista Cloud Forest Reserve.[3]

gollark: Additionally, the security is kind of bad so I would basically have to give anyone else working on it full access to everything.
gollark: I refuse to delegate any osmarks.net operations because nobody else I know has the particular weird skillset (and knowledge of my code) necessary to run it.
gollark: (but I habitually say "we")
gollark: (okay, fiiiine, nobody else works directly on this)
gollark: Me and 270000 bees.

References

  1. Tortricidae.com
  2. Razowski, J. & J. Wojtusiak (June 30, 2010). "Tortricidae (Lepidoptera) from Peru" (PDF). 53B (1–2). Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia: 73–159. doi:10.3409/azc.53b_1-2.73-159Z. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. Razowski, J. & V. Pelz (2006). "Gauruncus Razowski, 1988 and Galomecalpa Razowski, 1990 from Ecuador (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Euliini)" (PDF). 34 (135). Shilap Revista de Lepidopterologia: 289–303. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)


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