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Filatima
''Filatima'' is a genus of moths in the family Gelechiidae. Biology In November 2005, an infestation of ''Filatima'' caterpillars was found to be stunting the revegetation activity of land destroyed by the eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington (U.S. state), Washington."Caterpillars keep volcano bare." ''New Scientist'' 188.2525 (12 Nov 2005): 23. Species *''Filatima abactella'' (Clarke, 1932) *''Filatima adamsi'' Hodges & Adamski, 1997 *''Filatima albicostella'' Clarke, 1942 *''Filatima albilorella'' (Zeller, 1873) *''Filatima albipectus'' (Walsingham, 1911) *''Filatima angustipennis'' Sattler, 1961 *''Filatima arizonella'' (Busck, 1903) *''Filatima asiatica'' Sattler, 1961 *''Filatima aulaea'' (Clarke, 1932) *''Filatima autocrossa'' (Meyrick, 1937) *''Filatima betulae'' Clarke, 1947 *''Filatima biforella'' (Busck, 1909) *''Filatima bigella'' (Busck, 1913) *''Filatima biminimaculella'' (Chambers, 1880) *''Filatima catacrossa'' (Meyrick, 1927) *''Filatima collinearis'' (Meyr ...
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Filatima Biminimaculella
''Filatima biminimaculella'' is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas Texas ( , ; or ) is the most populous U.S. state, state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States. It borders Louisiana to the east, Arkansas to the northeast, Oklahoma to the north, New Mexico to the we .... Adults are similar to '' Filatima pseudacaciella'', but are a little darker and lack the white dusting in the apical part of the wing. There is also a small ochreous spot on each side of the apex of the thorax. Otherwise, the species resemble closely being brown with a faint purplish hue, more or less distinctly streaked longitudinally, with ochreous within the costal margin. References Moths described in 1880 Filatima {{Filatima-stub ...
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Filatima Aulaea
''Filatima aulaea'' is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Washington, Idaho, Wyoming and California California () is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States that lies on the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. It borders Oregon to the north, Nevada and Arizona to the east, and shares Mexico–United States border, an .... References Moths described in 1932 Filatima {{Filatima-stub ...
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Filatima Asiatica
''Filatima asiatica'' is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in New Guinea New Guinea (; Hiri Motu: ''Niu Gini''; , fossilized , also known as Papua or historically ) is the List of islands by area, world's second-largest island, with an area of . Located in Melanesia in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, the island is ..., where it has been recorded from the Prince Alexander Mountains. References Moths described in 1961 Filatima {{Filatima-stub ...
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Filatima Biforella
''Filatima biforella'' is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Texas. The wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the opposite wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–200 has a wingspan of , and a wandering albatross (''Diomedea exulans'') caught in 1965 had a wingsp ... is 17–18 mm. The forewings are whitish-grey or grey with slight blackish subcostal and subdorsal marks near the base and with black discal blotches before the middle of the wing and on the end of the cell, slightly edged whitish or brownish, the first transverse-oval, sometimes broken into two, the second inverted-triangular. There is a small suffused white spot on the costa at three-fourths, sometimes nearly obsolete. The hindwings are grey or light grey. References Moths described in 1909 Filatima {{Filatima-stub ...
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Filatima Betulae
''Filatima betulae'' is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Massachusetts. The wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the opposite wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–200 has a wingspan of , and a wandering albatross (''Diomedea exulans'') caught in 1965 had a wingsp ... is 19–21 mm. The larvae feed on '' Betula populifolia''. References Moths described in 1947 Filatima {{Filatima-stub ...
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Filatima Catacrossa
''Filatima catacrossa'' is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Texas and Arizona. The wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the opposite wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–200 has a wingspan of , and a wandering albatross (''Diomedea exulans'') caught in 1965 had a wingsp ... is 17–19 mm. The forewings are fuscous suffusedly irrorated dark fuscous, in males almost always a broad band of brownish-ochreous suffusion on the costal area from the base to about three-fourths, but leaving the costal edge and often two or three streaks posteriorly dark, in females this suffusion is little developed. The stigmata in males are usually quite imperceptible, but in one dark example indicated by obscure whitish dots, in females sometimes visible, small, blackish, the plical linear, beneath the first discal. There is a small spot of whitish suffusion on the ...
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Filatima Collinearis
''Filatima collinearis'' is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Texas. The wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the opposite wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–200 has a wingspan of , and a wandering albatross (''Diomedea exulans'') caught in 1965 had a wingsp ... is 19–20 mm. The forewings are light grey speckled dark fuscous, sometimes partially tinged whitish. There are several small indistinct dots of black irroration on the basal area and the second discal stigma is small, blackish, sometimes followed by a few whitish-ochreous scales, and tending to be connected by an imperfect row of blackish scales with a minute blackish dot representing the first discal. The hindwings are grey. References Moths described in 1927 Filatima {{Filatima-stub ...
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Filatima Arizonella
''Filatima arizonella'' is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Arizona. The wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the opposite wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–200 has a wingspan of , and a wandering albatross (''Diomedea exulans'') caught in 1965 had a wingsp ... is 13–15 mm. The forewings are deep bronzy black with four white markings, namely, one large outwardly oblique white costal streak near the base, the lower tip of which crosses the fold. There is one nearly elliptical white spot on the middle of the wing, one triangular white costal spot at the beginning of the cilia, and opposite this a smaller dorsal white spot. The hindwings are light silvery fuscous, darker along the costa and toward the tip. References Moths described in 1903 Filatima {{Filatima-stub ...
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Filatima Angustipennis
''Filatima angustipennis'' is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in southern France France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the Atlantic Ocean#North Atlan .... References Moths described in 1961 Filatima {{Filatima-stub ...
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Filatima Albipectus
''Filatima albipectus'' is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in Mexico (Sonora) and the United States, where it has been recorded from California. The wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the opposite wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–200 has a wingspan of , and a wandering albatross (''Diomedea exulans'') caught in 1965 had a wingsp ... is 14–15 mm. The forewings are pale brownish cinereous, sprinkled and smeared with fuscous, with a slight indication of four fuscous spots, one small one at one-fifth from the base, one in the fold and another on the disc a little beyond the latter and partially connected with it by fuscous scaling. The fourth is found at the end of the cell and the faintly indicated pale fascia on the outer fifth is scarcely bowed outward. The hindwings are brownish grey, more shaded with brown on their outer half. References Moths described in 1911 Filatima ...
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Filatima Albicostella
''Filatima albicostella'' is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Washington, Kansas, Montana, Texas and Yukon. The wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the opposite wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–200 has a wingspan of , and a wandering albatross (''Diomedea exulans'') caught in 1965 had a wingsp ... is 18–19 mm. The forewings are yellowish white strongly suffused and irrorated with fuscous, except for the costal edge, and with a purplish luster. There are a few ill-defined, blackish-fuscous streaks in the cell, on the basal half of the wing. The hindwings are light purplish fuscous, darker towards the margins. References Moths described in 1942 Filatima {{Filatima-stub ...
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