Peritornenta spilanthes

Peritornenta spilanthes
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Depressariidae
Genus: Peritornenta
Species: P. spilanthes
Binomial name
Peritornenta spilanthes
(Meyrick, 1933)
Synonyms
  • Peritorneuta spilanthes Meyrick, 1933

Peritornenta spilanthes is a moth in the Depressariidae family. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1933. It is found in Fiji.[1]

The wingspan is about 14 mm. The forewings are white, strewn with numerous small rather dark brown spots, tending to coalesce in rather oblique or irregular transverse series. The extreme costal edge is white but tinged crimson rose just beneath the edge. The hindwings are white, the apical edge tinged grey.[2]

References

  1. Peritornenta at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms.
  2. Exotic Microlepidoptera 4 (15): 475


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