''Sorotacta viridans'' 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

Edward Meyrick Edward Meyrick (25 November 1854 – 31 March 1938) was an English schoolmaster and amateur entomologist. He was an expert on microlepidoptera and some consider him one of the founders of modern microlepidoptera systematics. Life and work Ed ...

in 1914. 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 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 11–12 mm. The forewings are light dull green, finely sprinkled with whitish and with a small blackish spot on the base of the costa, and a black subbasal dot in the middle. There are small wedge-shaped black spots on the costa at one-fifth, before the middle, and two-thirds, suffused beneath with deep olive green and edged posteriorly with whitish. The discal stigmata are blackish, raised and somewhat whitish edged, the first rather large, the second forming the apex of an irregular dark grey whitish-edged pre-tornal blotch. The plical stigma is represented by a greenish tuft, obliquely before the first discal, preceded by a small blackish dot. There is an indistinct whitish line from beyond the third costal spot to the tornus, obtusely angulated in the middle and there are two blackish dots on the costa towards the apex and termen beneath the apex, and some grey-whitish suffusion along the margin. The hindwings are dark grey.''Transactions of the Entomological Society of London''. 1914: 254.

References

Gelechiinae Moths described in 1914 {{Gelechiinae-stub