Alloclita recisella

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Alloclita recisella
Systematics
Class : Insects (Insecta)
Order : Butterflies (Lepidoptera)
Family : Magnificent butterfly (Cosmopterigidae)
Subfamily : Antequerinae
Genre : Alloclita
Type : Alloclita recisella
Scientific name
Alloclita recisella
Staudinger , 1859

Alloclita recisella is a butterfly ( moth ) from the family of cosmopterigidae (Cosmopterigidae).

features

The moths reach a wingspan of 9 to 15 millimeters. The head shimmers white ocher. The antennae are ringed dark brown and gray-white. The thorax is ocher-white and heavily speckled with gray. The tegulae are ocher white, the rear part is not speckled. The front wings are ocher white with a gray-brown mixture. The first sixth is gray-brown and has an inwardly sloping dark gray outer edge. In the middle of the Costa loader there is a wide gray-brown band, which becomes narrower towards the inner edge of the wing and can be interrupted. Inside it is bounded by a more or less distinct dark gray band that bends towards the apex in the middle of the wing . The apical area is gray-brown and separated from the central band by a narrow yellowish white band. The fringed scales are ocher gray. The hind wings shine gray and are roughly scaled. The abdomen is dark brown, the segments are banded gray-brown behind. The anal tuft is gray-brown. The drawing on the forewings is very variable. The spectrum ranges from a very light basic color with clear bands to almost completely gray-brown wings with bands only indicated by a dark brown border.

In the males, the left brachium is slightly longer than the tegumen , dilated and curved at the tip. The right brachium has a bulge dorsally in front of the middle, the apex is flattened. The tegumen is square, the blades are spatulate. The valvellae are slender and curved.

In females, the apophyses are about the same length. The sterigma is only slightly sclerotized and has the shape of an oval plate. The ostium has a semicircular band and is heavily sclerotized laterally . The ductus bursae is only half as long as the corpus bursae . The corpus bursae has two sickle-shaped and thorny signs.

distribution

Alloclita recisella is native to the Mediterranean, from Portugal and Spain to Cyprus and Israel .

biology

The biology of the species is unknown. Butterflies were collected in May and July to September.

Systematics

The following synonyms are known from the literature:

  • Alloclita albocinctella ( Chrétien , 1915)
  • Alloclita gelechiformis ( Turati , 1930)
  • Alloclita inconspicuella ( Turati , 1929)
  • Alloclita orthoclina Meyrick , 1922
  • Borkhausenia albocinctella Chrétien , 1915
  • Mompha gelechiformis Turati , 1930
  • Tinea inconspicuella Turati , 1929

swell

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d J. C. Koster, S. Yu. Sinev: Momphidae, Batrachedridae, Stathmopodidae, Agonoxenidae, Cosmopterigidae, Chrysopeleiidae . In: P. Huemer, O. Karsholt, L. Lyneborg (eds.): Microlepidoptera of Europe . 1st edition. tape 5 . Apollo Books, Stenstrup 2003, ISBN 87-88757-66-8 , pp. 99 (English).
  2. ↑ Otto Staudinger : Diagnosis together with short descriptions of new Andalusian lepidopterans. In: Entomological Newspaper . 20 (7-9), 1859, pp. 247-248.
  3. ↑ Alloclita recisella at Fauna Europaea. Retrieved December 5, 2011
  4. ↑ S. Yu. Sinev: World catalog of cosmopterigid moths (Lepidoptera: Cosmopterigidae). Proceedings of the Zoological Institute, St. Petersburg 2002, Volume 293, pages 39-40

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