''Filatima catacrossa'' 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 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 costa at three-fourths. The hindwings are light grey.
Exot. Microlep. 3 (11): 347
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References
Moths described in 1927
Filatima
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