Tornodoxa dubicanella

Tornodoxa dubicanella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Tornodoxa
Species: T. dubicanella
Binomial name
Tornodoxa dubicanella
Ueda, 2012

Tornodoxa dubicanella is a moth in the Gelechiidae family. It was described by Ueda in 2012.[1] It is found in Japan[2] (Hokkaido, Kyushu).

The length of the forewings is 5-6.5 mm for males and 5-5.5 mm for females. The forewings are whitish, irregularly tinged with pale brownish grey and scattered with fuscous scales. There is a fuscous dot on the costa at the base and a fuscous dot on the subcosta near the base. There is also a narrow, elongate fuscous mark on the median fifth of the costa and an oval pale fuscous suffusion before the middle of the cell. The hindwings are pale ochreous.[3]

References

  1. "LepIndex". nhm.ac.uk. Retrieved 2015-06-03.
  2. Tornodoxa at funet
  3. Ueda, T., 2012: Four new species of the tribe Chelariini (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae) from Japan. Transactions of the Lepidopterological Society of Japan 63(2): 79-86.
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