Photodotis photinopa

Photodotis photinopa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Photodotis
Species: P. photinopa
Binomial name
Photodotis photinopa
(Meyrick, 1920)
Synonyms
  • Megacraspedus photinopa Meyrick, 1920

Photodotis photinopa is a moth of the Gelechiidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1920. It is found in South Africa.[1][2]

The wingspan is about 13 mm. The forewings are white and with a rather broad whitish-ochreous streak sprinkled with grey and dark fuscous running from the base beneath the costa to one-third, then obliquely deflected to a small round yellow-whitish spot edged with a few dark scales representing the second discal stigma, and a similar streak from the middle of the base to a more obscure similar spot representing the plical stigma. There is some grey irroration towards the costa at two-thirds, and two or three scales on the tornus. There is an apical spot of grey suffusion. The hindwings are light grey.[3]

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