Monochroa gilvolinella

Monochroa gilvolinella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Gelechiidae
Genus:	Monochroa
Species:	M. gilvolinella
Binomial name
	Monochroa gilvolinella; (Clemens, 1863)
Synonyms
	Gelechia gilvolinella Clemens, 1863;

Monochroa gilvolinella is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by James Brackenridge Clemens in 1863. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Illinois, Indiana, Mississippi, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania.[1][2]

The wingspan is about 10 mm. The forewings are pale yellowish, dusted with dark fuscous, especially towards the tip and along the costa from the middle to the tip. Near the tip is an oblique, pale yellowish line from the costa, extended to a spot of the same hue beneath the tip. Behind this line in the middle of the wing is a blackish-brown dot. Between the costal end of the line and the tip of the wing are two or three small pale yellowish costal dots, and a few on the margin beneath the tip, sometimes indistinct. The hindwings are fuscous.[3]

References

Savela, Markku. "Monochroa Heinemann, 1870". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved November 5, 2017.
Moth Photographers Group. Mississippi State University.
Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia 2: 119

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[1] Savela, Markku. "Monochroa Heinemann, 1870". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved November 5, 2017.

[2] Moth Photographers Group. Mississippi State University.

[3] Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia 2: 119