''Xenolechia velatella'' is a
moth of the family
Gelechiidae. It is found in
North America
North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere and almost entirely within the Western Hemisphere. It is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South America and the Car ...
, where it has been recorded from
Alberta,
Arizona and
British Columbia.
The
wingspan is about 14 mm. The forewings are clothed with very long, narrow speckled scales. The ground colour is white, heavily overlaid with ochreous and fuscous on the basal two thirds of the wing. The apical third is also sprinkled with dark scales, but to a lesser extent and appears quite light contrasted with the basal part. Near the base is an oblique, outwardly directed, black costal streak, reaching the fold and followed by a white space only slightly sprinkled with dark scales. There are two longitudinal rows of tufts of raised scales, one through the middle of the wing with the first tuft at the basal third, the second on
the middle of the wing, and the third at the end of the cell. The other row with two tufts below the fold and the third just below the end of the cell. The hindwings are light fuscous.
Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. 8 (3-4) : 90
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References
Moths described in 1907
Xenolechia
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