Dactylethrella globulata

Dactylethrella globulata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Dactylethrella
Species: D. globulata
Binomial name
Dactylethrella globulata
(Meyrick, 1910)
Synonyms
  • Dactylethra globulata Meyrick, 1910

Dactylethrella globulata is a moth in the Gelechiidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1910.[1] It is found in Sri Lanka.[2]

The wingspan is 11–12 mm. The forewings are whitish, tinged with brownish and sprinkled with dark fuscous and with three moderately large roundish fuscous spots in the disc at one-fourth, halfway and at two-thirds, sprinkled with darker, the first smaller and less marked. There is a suffused similar patch extending along the termen. The hindwings are grey.[3]

References

  1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Dactylethrella globulata". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 20, 2018.
  2. Dactylethrella at funet
  3. J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 20 (2): 461


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