''Untomia melanobathra'' 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 ...
of the family
Gelechiidae. It was described by
Edward Meyrick in 1918. It is found in
Ecuador
Ecuador ( ; ; Quechua: ''Ikwayur''; Shuar: ''Ecuador'' or ''Ekuatur''), officially the Republic of Ecuador ( es, República del Ecuador, which literally translates as "Republic of the Equator"; Quechua: ''Ikwadur Ripuwlika''; Shuar: ''Eku ...
.
The
wingspan
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is 10–11 mm. The forewings are dark grey, suffusedly sprinkled or mixed with whitish, sometimes much suffused with whitish and sprinkled with black. The stigmata are represented by elongate black marks, the plical obliquely before the first discal, an additional mark in the disc towards the base. The costa is more or less black on the postmedian area. There is a fine very oblique whitish line from three-fourths of the costa to the termen above the middle. The apical area beyond this is suffused with light brownish and there is a black mark along the apical part of the costa and an indistinct blackish dash before the termen in the middle. The hindwings are grey, in males suffused blackish towards the base.
[Meyrick, Edward (1916–1923)]
''Exotic Microlepidoptera''. 2 (5): 146.
References
Moths described in 1918
Untomia
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