Apotomops spomotopa

Apotomops spomotopa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Tortricidae
Genus: Apotomops
Species: A. spomotopa
Binomial name
Apotomops spomotopa
Brown & Razowski, 2003[1]

Apotomops spomotopa is a species of moth of the Tortricidae family that is endemic to Peru.

The length of the forewings is about 7.5 millimetres (0.30 in) for males and about 10 millimetres (0.39 in) for females. The ground colour of the forewings is white, mottled with grey overscaling distally. The hindwings are white, but pale beige in the apical region.

Etymology

The species name is the genus name spelled backwards, creating a palindrome.[2]

References

  1. Tortricidae.com
  2. Brown, John W. & Jozéf Razowski (2003). "Description of Ptychocroca, a new genus from Chile and Argentina, with comments on the Bonagota Razowski group of genera (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Euliini)" (PDF). Zootaxa. Magnolia Press. 303: 1–31. ISSN 1175-5326.


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