''Porpodryas'' is a genus of moth in the family
Gelechiidae
The Gelechiidae are a family of moths commonly referred to as twirler moths or gelechiid moths. They are the namesake family of the huge and little-studied superfamily Gelechioidea, and the family's taxonomy has been subject to considerable d ...
. It contains the species ''Porpodryas prasinantha'', which is found in
French Guiana
French Guiana ( or ; french: link=no, Guyane ; gcr, label=French Guianese Creole, Lagwiyann ) is an overseas departments and regions of France, overseas department/region and single territorial collectivity of France on the northern Atlantic ...
.
The
wingspan
The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–200 has a wingspan of , and a wandering albatross (''Diomedea exulans'') caught in 1965 had a wingspan ...
is about 31 mm. The forewings are whitish irregularly sprinkled grey and dark fuscous with seven small narrow oblique semi-oval blackish spots along the costa, the space between the third and fourth suffused dark grey, beneath this space an adjacent quadrate grey spot partly edged blackish, edged beneath by a discal dark grey streak mixed with light green and extended to the end of the cell. There are short fine blackish dashes beneath the costa and above the dorsum near the base and a longer blackish line on the fold before the middle. There is an oval spot outlined with grey beneath the anterior part of the discal median streak and a strongly angulated grey subterminal shade, marked with some blackish dashes between the veins. Some short blackish marks are found before the posterior part of the costa and termen, and some cloudy marginal dots. The hindwings are subhyaline prismatic whitish, with the apex narrowly suffused grey.
Exotic Microlep. 2 (10): 305
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References
Pexicopiini
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