Brachmia Resoluta
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''Brachmia resoluta'' is a
moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...
in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1918. It is found in the
Bengal Bengal ( ; bn, বাংলা/বঙ্গ, translit=Bānglā/Bôngô, ) is a geopolitical, cultural and historical region in South Asia, specifically in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent at the apex of the Bay of Bengal, predom ...
region of what was then British India. The
wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–200 has a wingspan of , and a wandering albatross (''Diomedea exulans'') caught in 1965 had a wingspan of ...
is about 13 mm. The forewings are light greyish ochreous irrorated (sprinkled) with fuscous and with a dark fuscous dot on the base of the costa. The stigmata is dark fuscous, the plical beneath the first discal and there are almost marginal cloudy, dark fuscous dots around the posterior part of the costa and termen. The hindwings are pale grey.''Exotic Microlepidoptera''. 2 (4): 113.


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Moths described in 1918 Brachmia Taxa named by Edward Meyrick Moths of Asia {{Brachmia-stub