Ardozyga crotalodes

Ardozyga crotalodes is a species of moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1904. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Queensland.[1]

Ardozyga crotalodes
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A. crotalodes
Binomial name
Ardozyga crotalodes
(Meyrick, 1904)
Synonyms
  • Protolechia crotalodes Meyrick, 1904

The wingspan is about 14 mm (0.55 in). The forewings are whitish-fuscous, sprinkled with dark fuscous and with small dark fuscous costal spots at the base and one-sixth. The stigmata are fuscous, the plical obliquely beyond the first discal, an additional dot between and above the discal. There is a dark fuscous costal mark before two-thirds, and indistinct dark fuscous dots on the posterior part of the costa and termen. The hindwings are light grey.[2]

References

  1. Savela, Markku (ed.). "Ardozyga". FUNET. Retrieved 3 July 2020.
  2. Meyrick, E. (1904). "Descriptions of Australian Micro-Lepidoptera". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 29 (part II [number 114]): 385. Retrieved 17 June 2020 via Biodiversity Library.


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