Merimnetria epermeniella

Merimnetria epermeniella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Merimnetria
Species: M. epermeniella
Binomial name
Merimnetria epermeniella
(Walsingham, 1907)
Synonyms
  • Merimnetria (Aristoteliodes) epermeniella
  • Aristotelia epermeniella Walsingham, 1907

Merimnetria epermeniella is a moth of the Gelechiidae family. It is endemic to Kauai, Hawaii.

The wingspan is about 16 mm. The forewings are pale fawn-ocherous, sprinkled and shaded with rust-brown and fuscous, the latter predominating in three sprinkled dorsal patches below the fold and slightly indicated along the middle of the costa. The former prevailing, in a short basal patch above the fold, in a strong outwardly oblique shade from the costa at one-fourth, reaching to the fold on the outer edge of an ill-defined oblique fascia of the paler ground color and thence in mottled sprinkling over the remaining wing-surface to the apex. The hindwings are grayish.[1]

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