''Deroxena conioleuca'' 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
Autostichidae
Autostichidae is a family of moths in the moth superfamily Gelechioidea.
Subfamilies
*Autostichinae Le Marchand, 1947
* Deocloninae Hodges, 1998
* Glyphidocerinae Hodges, 1998
*Holcopogoninae Gozmány, 1967
* Oegoconiinae Leraut, 1992
*Symmocinae ...
. It was described by
Edward Meyrick
Edward Meyrick (25 November 1854, in Ramsbury – 31 March 1938, at Thornhanger, Marlborough) was an English schoolmaster and amateur entomologist. He was an expert on microlepidoptera and some consider him one of the founders of modern micr ...
in 1926. It is found in
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country located mainly in Central Asia and partly in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the north and west, China to the east, Kyrgyzstan to the southeast, Uzbeki ...
(
Uralsk
Uralsk (russian: Уральск) is the name of several rural localities in Russia:
*Uralsk, Republic of Bashkortostan, a '' selo'' in Uralsky Selsoviet of Uchalinsky District of the Republic of Bashkortostan
* Uralsk, Orenburg Oblast, a ''selo'' ...
).
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 14–16 mm. The forewings are ochreous whitish irrorated (sprinkled) with fuscous. The discal stigmata are cloudy, fuscous, with a more or less clear ochreous-whitish streak connecting them. The hindwings are white, the veins on the posterior half and terminal edge greyish.
''Exotic Microlepidoptera''. 3 (10): 291.
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References
Moths described in 1926
Autostichinae
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