Glauce (moth)

Glauce
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Glauce
Chambers, 1875[1]
Species: G. pectenalaeella
Binomial name
Glauce pectenalaeella
Chambers, 1875

Glauce is a genus of moth in the family Gelechiidae. It contains only one species, Glauce pectenalaeella, which is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Mississippi, Quebec, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and West Virginia.[2][3]

The wingspan is about 12 mm.[4] The ground color is pale yellowish, almost entirely obscured by dense fuscous dusting and fuscous spots. The apex of the forewings is more deeply fuscous.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Glauce at funet
  2. ↑ Glauce at funet
  3. ↑ mothphotographersgroup
  4. ↑ Flickr
  5. ↑ Can. Ent. 7 (1): 12
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