Glyphidocera Umbrata
   HOME

TheInfoList



OR:

''Glyphidocera umbrata'' is a
moth Moths are a group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not Butterfly, butterflies. They were previously classified as suborder Heterocera, but the group is Paraphyly, paraphyletic with respect to butterflies (s ...
in the family
Autostichidae Autostichidae is a family of moths in the moth superfamily Gelechioidea. Subfamilies * Autostichinae Le Marchand, 1947 * Deocloninae Hodges, 1998 * Glyphidocerinae Hodges, 1998 *Holcopogoninae __NOTOC__ The Holcopogoninae are a subfamily of m ...
. It was described by
Thomas de Grey, 6th Baron Walsingham Thomas de Grey, 6th Baron Walsingham (29 July 1843 – 3 December 1919), of Merton Hall, Norfolk, was an English politician and amateur entomologist. Family business Walsingham was the son of Thomas de Grey, 5th Baron Walsingham, and Augusta- ...
, in 1911. It is found in
Guatemala Guatemala, officially the Republic of Guatemala, is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the north and west by Mexico, to the northeast by Belize, to the east by Honduras, and to the southeast by El Salvador. It is hydrologically b ...
. The
wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the opposite wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–200 has a wingspan of , and a wandering albatross (''Diomedea exulans'') caught in 1965 had a wingsp ...
is about 16 mm. The forewings are dark greyish brown with paler brownish cinereous sprinkling about the basal third, across the wing-middle, and narrowly across the apical fifth in a line parallel to the termen. The hindwings are pale brownish cinereous.Biol. centr.-amer. Lep. Heterocera 4 : 111


References

Glyphidocerinae Moths of Central America Moths described in 1911 Taxa named by Thomas de Grey, 6th Baron Walsingham {{glyphidocerinae-stub