''Filatima bigella'' is a
moth of the family
Gelechiidae. It is found in
North America
North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere and almost entirely within the Western Hemisphere. It is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South America and the Car ...
, where it has been recorded from
Texas and
Arizona.
The
wingspan is 20–21 mm. The forewings are dark velvety fuscous with two velvety black round dots, one on the middle of the fold and one obliquely above it on the cell, both slightly edged with rust-brown scales. There is a small rust-brown spot at the end of the cell, containing a few single black scales, a small blackish costal spot at the apical third and an ill-defined marginal row of black around the apical and terminal edges. The hindwings are dark fuscous.
J. Ent. Zool. Pomona College 5 : 99
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References
Moths described in 1913
Filatima
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