Tinagma Ochremaculella
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''Tinagma ochremaculella'' 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
Douglasiidae Douglasiidae is a small Lepidopteran family. It includes around 32 species of micromoth whose adults are collectively called Douglas moths, after British lepidopterist and hemipterist John William Douglas. The largest genus in the family is '' Ti ...
. It is found in
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, where it has been recorded from
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. The forewings are marked with short and indistinct ochreous dashes, one of which is on the fold before the middle, another is placed about the middle beneath the fold. There is another just behind the middle on the disc and one on the costal margin just before the middle, and another further back just within the costal margin. At or just behind the discal vein are two small circular raised tufts of brownish scales. The apex of the wing is suffused with ochreous.The Canadian entomologist


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Moths described in 1875 Douglasiidae {{Gracillarioidea-stub