Alucita acalles

Alucita acalles
Alucita acalles
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Alucitidae
Genus: Alucita
Species: A. acalles
Binomial name
Alucita acalles
(Walsingham, 1915)
Synonyms
  • Orneodes acalles Walsingham, 1915

Alucita acalles is a moth in the Alucitidae family. It is found in Costa Rica.[1]

The wingspan is about 16 mm. The antennae are pale whitish ochreous, slightly barred with brown toward the base. The head and thorax are whitish ochreous, sprinkled with brownish. The forewings are pale yellowish ochreous, dotted with white, and banded with dark brown fading into golden brown. The hindwings are paler than the forewings, the yellowish ochreous colour being reduced and the brownish bands almost faded-out.[2]

References

  1. ^ "LepIndex". Nhm.ac.uk. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/jdsml/research-curation/research/projects/lepindex/detail.dsml?TaxonNo=51.0. Retrieved 2011-10-18. 
  2. ^ "Species description". http://www.botanicus.org/primeocr/mbgserv14/botanicus5/BCA_00_00_0/bca_15_04_00/bca_15_04_00_534.txt. Retrieved 2011-10-18. 
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