Utilia falcata
| Utilia falcata | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Oecophoridae |
| Genus: | Utilia |
| Species: | U. falcata |
| Binomial name | |
| Utilia falcata J. F. G. Clarke, 1978 | |
Utilia falcata is a moth in the family Oecophoridae. It was described by John Frederick Gates Clarke in 1978. It is found in Chile.[1]
The wingspan is about 24 mm. The forewings are pale ocheraceous buff. Well inside the termen there is a line of four tiny, ill-defined, single brownish scales and there is a single brownish scale at the basal two-fifths in the cell and on the fold a similar mark. The hindwings are ocherous white.[2]
References
[edit]- ↑ Savela, Markku. "Utilia falcata Clarke, 1978". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 13, 2019.
- ↑ J. F. Gates Clarke (1978). Neotropical Microlepidoptera, XXI: New Genera and Species of Oecophoridae from Chile (PDF). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology • Number 273. Smithsonian Institution Press. p. 51. Retrieved 15 December 2017.
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