Proeulia paronerata

Proeulia paronerata is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in the Valparaíso Region of Chile.

Proeulia paronerata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Tortricidae
Genus:
Proeulia
Species:
P. paronerata
Binomial name
Proeulia paronerata
Razowski & Pelz, 2010[1]

The wingspan is 19–21 mm. The ground colour of the forewings is cream white, suffused with pale ochreous cream and cream and sprinkled with brownish grey, grey and with brownish in the dorsal portion of the wing. The hindwings are cream, in the basal half mixed with pale brownish. The forewings of the females are whitish, strigulated (finely streaked) with olive cream suffused with grey in the terminal third.

Etymology

The species name refers to the similarity with Proeulia onerata, plus the Greek prefix par (meaning near).[2]

gollark: I'm aware.
gollark: you.
gollark: Oh, also some of reddit.
gollark: I plugged my brain directly into SCP-█████, Twitter and the osmarks.tk web crawler algorithms.
gollark: Internet.

References
  1. tortricidae.com
  2. Razowski, J. & V. Pelz 2010: Tortricidae from Chile (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae). Shilap Revista de Lepidopterologia 38 (149): 5-55.


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