''Aristotelia pulvera'' is a

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of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by

Annette Frances Braun Annette Frances Braun (1884–1978) was an American entomologist and leading authority on microlepidoptera, a grouping of mostly small and nocturnal moths. Her special interest was leaf miners: moths whose larvae live and feed from within a leaf ...

in 1923. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from

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. The

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is about 13.5 mm. The forewings are whitish ocherous, evenly dusted with fine brown spots, and rosy tinged along the fold and in the apical third of the wing. There is an oblique brown bar from the basal third of the costa nearly to the dorsum, which is broadest on the fold. A quadrate brown patch is found at the apical third of the costa, and beneath it on the middle of the wing is a nearly circular golden-brown and rosy tinged spot.''Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences''. (4) 12 (10): 117
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Moths described in 1923 Aristotelia (moth) Moths of North America {{Aristotelia-stub