Battaristis rhythmodes

Battaristis rhythmodes
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Battaristis
Species: B. rhythmodes
Binomial name
Battaristis rhythmodes
Meyrick, 1929

Battaristis rhythmodes is a moth of the Gelechiidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1929. It is found in Brazil (Para).[1]

The wingspan is about 7 mm. The forewings are grey, with the tips of the scales pale and with black dots towards the costa at one-sixth and one-third, and in the disc at the middle and two-thirds. There is an oblique dark fuscous streak crossing the fold about one-fourth, and a small spot on the fold before the middle, as well as an elongate-triangular blackish patch extending along the costa from before the middle to near the apex, cut by a short direct whitish strigula at the middle, and an oblique one at three-fourths, the latter almost meeting a fine indistinct erect whitish strigula from the tornus. The hindwings are dark grey.[2]

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