Autosticha strenuella

Autosticha strenuella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Autostichidae
Genus: Autosticha
Species: A. strenuella
Binomial name
Autosticha strenuella
(Walker, 1864)
Synonyms
  • Gelechia strenuella Walker, 1864

Autosticha strenuella is a moth in the Autostichidae family. It was described by Walker in 1864. It is found in Sri Lanka.[1]

Adults are fawn-colour, robust, cinereous beneath. The forewings are slightly acute, with four black points at the disk, two before the middle, the other two beyond the middle, the third and fourth behind the first and second. There are some black points along the apical part of the costa and along the exterior border, which is straight and moderately oblique. The hindwings are cinereous.[2]

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