Athrips tigrina
| Athrips tigrina | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gelechiidae |
| Genus: | Athrips |
| Species: | A. tigrina |
| Binomial name | |
| Athrips tigrina (Christoph, 1877) | |
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Athrips tigrina is a moth of the Gelechiidae family. It is found in Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, China (Ningxia, Xinjiang) and Mongolia.[1] The habitat consists of deserts.
The wingspan is 11–17 mm. The forewings are light cream with ochreous brown raised scales forming two distinct fasciae near the base, There are large prominent tornal and smaller subapical spots and there are grey scales in the subapical and costal areas. The hindwings are grey. Adults are on wing from the end of June to the end of September.[2]
References
- ↑ Athrips at funet
- ↑ Bidzilya, O., 2005: A review of the genus Athrips (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) in the Palaearctic region . Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 52 (1): 3-71. doi:10.1002/mmnd.200310001
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