''Scrobipalpa parvipulex'' is a

moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of ...

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 was described by Walsingham in 1911. It is found in

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. 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 . The forewings are creamy white, specked and spotted with dark umber-brown. There is a group of three spots forming a triangle at the base, two at half the wing-width, and a third, forming the apex, on the costa at about one-fourth. An oblique streak, apparently composed of two or more dark spots, descends obliquely outward from the costa, reaching to the fold, scarcely separated from its outer edge is another spot on the disc before the middle, and remote from this is another at the end of the cell, the costa being slightly shaded with umber-brown speckling above and before it. At the apex and along the termen is a shade of profuse umber-brown speckling, extending partially into the brownish grey cilia which become whitish about the apex. The hindwings are pale blue-grey.''Entomologist's Monthly Magazine'' 47 : 13

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q14325028 Scrobipalpa Moths described in 1911