''Metzneria campicolella'' is a
moth of the family
Gelechiidae described by
Josef Johann Mann
Josef Johann Mann (19 May 1804 – 20 March 1889), or Johann Josef Ritter von Mann, was a German Bohemian entomologist and a specialist in Lepidoptera.
Mann was born in Jablonné v Podještědí, Bohemia
Bohemia ( ; cs, Čechy ; ; hsb ...
in 1857. It is found in
Asia Minor,
Croatia,
Italy,
Portugal and on
Corsica
Corsica ( , Upper , Southern ; it, Corsica; ; french: Corse ; lij, Còrsega; sc, Còssiga) is an island in the Mediterranean Sea and one of the 18 regions of France. It is the fourth-largest island in the Mediterranean and lies southeast of ...
,
Sardinia,
Sicily, the
Dodecanese Islands,
Crete and
Cyprus.
The
wingspan is about 9 mm. The forewings are white with fine brown dots and black spots forming a triangle in the middle. The hindwings are grey.
"03302 ''Metzneria campicolella'' (Mann, 1857)"
''Lepiforum e. V.'' Retrieved August 11, 2020.
References
Moths described in 1857
Metzneria
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