''Scrobipalpa alia'' 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
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 Taxonomic rank, superfamily Gelechioidea, and the family's taxonomy (biology), taxonomy ...
. It was described by Mark I. Falkovitsh and Oleksiy V. Bidzilya in 2006. It is found in south-eastern
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a landlocked country primarily in Central Asia, with a European Kazakhstan, small portion in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the Kazakhstan–Russia border, north and west, China to th ...
.
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 .
The larvae feed on ''
Kalidium caspicum''.
[ФАЛЪКОВИЧ, М. И. & А. БИДЗИЛЯ (2006): Виїмчастокрилі молі триби Gnorimoschemini (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae) туранської фауни, які живуть на лободових (Chenopodiaceae), з описами нових видів he Turanian gelechiid moths of the tribe Gnorimoschemini (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae) living on plants of the family Chenopodiaceae, with descriptions of new species — ПРАЦІ ЗООЛОГІЧНОГО МУЗЕЮ 4: 62-104]
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Scrobipalpa
Moths described in 2006
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