Aristotelia crassicornis

Aristotelia crassicornis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Aristotelia
Species: A. crassicornis
Binomial name
Aristotelia crassicornis
Walsingham, 1897

Aristotelia crassicornis is a moth of the Gelechiidae family. It was described by Walsingham in 1897. It is found on the Virgin Islands, where it has been recorded from St. Jan.[1]

The wingspan is about 8 mm. The forewings are hoary whitish, sprinkled with greyish-fuscous scaling and with numerous short, slender, dark fuscous longitudinal streaklets accompanied by a few ferruginous scales, these have a tendency to follow the lines of the cell and of the fold, being only indicated on the costa by a minute streak at the base and two spots, one before the other behind the middle. The hindwings are shining, pale grey.[2]

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