Merimnetria notata

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

Merimnetria notata is a moth of the Gelechiidae family. It is endemic to Molokai, Hawaii.

The wingspan is about 14 mm. The forewings are whitish ocherous with a small blackish spot at the extreme base of the costa, a larger diffused spot on the fold near its base, a triangular costal patch before the middle, its apex reaching to the fold, a patch at the end of the cell and a smaller one on the costa before the apex with a series of almost connected blackish spots in the whitish ocherous terminal and costal cilia. The hindwings are pale rosy gray.[1]

The larvae possibly mine the leaves of Gouldia species. Leaf mines in Gouldia have been found on Molokai and are thought to belong to this species.

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