''Untomia albistrigella'' is a
moth of the family
Gelechiidae. It was described by
Vactor Tousey Chambers Vactor Tousey Chambers (commonly V.T. Chambers) (6 August 1830, Burlington, Kentucky – 7 August 1883, in Covington, Kentucky) was an American entomologist who specialized in Microlepidoptera. He along with James Brackenridge Clemens, was a pione ...
in 1872. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from
Alabama,
Arkansas,
Florida,
Georgia,
Illinois,
Indiana,
Kentucky,
Louisiana,
Maryland,
Mississippi,
North Carolina,
Ohio,
Oklahoma
Oklahoma (; Choctaw language, Choctaw: ; chr, ᎣᎧᎳᎰᎹ, ''Okalahoma'' ) is a U.S. state, state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States, bordered by Texas on the south and west, Kansas on the nor ...
,
Ontario,
Pennsylvania,
South Carolina,
Tennessee,
Texas and
West Virginia.
Adults are dark brown in some lights, faintly tinged with purple, green or bronze. There is a small oblique white costal streak just before, and a few indistinct whitish scales or small spots in the apex, near the dorsal cilia. The cilia are pale fuscous, with a dark brown hindmarginal line before their middle.
''The Canadian Entomologist'' 4 (9): 171
References
Moths described in 1872
Untomia
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