Gravitcornutia nasifera

Gravitcornutia nasifera is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Santa Catarina, Brazil.

Gravitcornutia nasifera
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Tortricidae
Genus:
Gravitcornutia
Species:
G. nasifera
Binomial name
Gravitcornutia nasifera
Razowski & Becker, 2010[1]

The wingspan is 13 mm. The ground colour of the forewings is white with grey suffusions and some grey and blackish dots. The markings are black grey. The hindwings are brownish cream.

Etymology

The species name refers to the process of the aedeagus and is derived from Latin nasus (meaning nose) and ferro (meaning I carry).[2]

gollark: As I do Latin at school I can help with ridiculous plurals.
gollark: I mean, I *may* have appeared that way, but meh, use whatever is most fun.
gollark: I'll just stick with arcanorum.
gollark: It doesn't matter too much, especially since English is basically five million languages glued together anyway.
gollark: They probably don't, but the site does!

References
  1. tortricidae.com
  2. Razowski, J. & V.O. Becker, 2010: Systematic and distributional data on Neotropical Euliini: Gravitcornutia Razowski & Becker (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae). Polish Journal of Entomology 79 (4): 411-432. Full article: .


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