Apiletria marcida R. Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875 SYMMOCINAE,   SYMMOCIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA

Don Herbison-Evans (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley

male, drawing by Felder & Rogenhofer,
Reise der Osterreichischen Fregatte Novara,
Band 2, Abtheilung 2 (5) (1875), Plate CXXXVIII, figure 42,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Smithsonian Libraries.

The adult moth has pale yellow forewings, and grey hindwings. The wingspan is about 2 cms.

Further reading :

Rudolf Felder & Alois F. Rogenhofer,
Zoologisher Theil: Lepidoptera: Heterocera (Micro-Lepidoptera),
Reise der Osterreichischen Fregatte Novara,
Part 9, Band 2, Abtheilung 2 (3) (1875), p. 3, and also Plate 138, fig. 42.

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(updated 15 December 2009, 5 November 2017)