Smenodoca

Smenodoca is a genus of moth in the family Gelechiidae. It contains only one species, Smenodoca erebenna, which is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from New South Wales, Victoria and Western Australia.[1]

Smenodoca
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Tribe: Gelechiini
Genus: Smenodoca
Meyrick, 1904
Species:
S. erebenna
Binomial name
Smenodoca erebenna
Meyrick, 1904

The wingspan is 9–11 mm (0.35–0.43 in). The forewings are white, coarsely irrorated with dark fuscous and with a more or less developed variably interrupted black streak from the base of the costa through the disc to the apex, and a less marked also interrupted streak along the fold. Sometimes a white streak between these, or a white longitudinal mark in the disc beyond the middle, or white opposite tornal and costal spots. Sometimes, the stigmata are traceable as part of black streaks, elongate, the plical beyond the first discal. The hindwings are fuscous darker posteriorly.[2]

References
  1. funet.fi
  2. Meyrick, E. (1904). "Descriptions of Australian Micro-Lepidoptera". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 29 (part II [number 114]): 303. Retrieved 17 June 2020 – via Internet Archive.


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