Sagarancona

Sagarancona
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Division: Ditrysia
Superfamily: Gelechioidea
Family: Autostichidae
Genus: Sagarancona
Gozmány, 1964
Species: S. sericiella
Binomial name
Sagarancona sericiella
(Walsingham, 1904)
Synonyms
  • Symmoca sericiella Walsingham, 1904

Sagarancona is a moth genus in the family Autostichidae. It contains the species Sagarancona sericiella, which is found in Algeria.[1]

The wingspan is 12-14 mm. The forewings are shining, silky, yellowish white, with a faint indication of a group of ochreous scales at the end of the cell, a smaller group in the middle of the fold and one or two on the disc slightly preceding the latter. In some specimens, these spots are absent, while in others not only the spots, but a tolerably plentiful dusting of single scales of the same colour is found, evenly distributed, especially over the outer half of the wing and along the costa, the whole insect thus assuming a more distinctly ochreous tinge. The hindwinqs are pale, shining, rosy grey.[2]

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