Gelechia flavipalpella

Gelechia flavipalpella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Gelechia
Species: G. flavipalpella
Binomial name
Gelechia flavipalpella
Walsingham, 1881

Gelechia flavipalpella is a moth of the Gelechiidae family. It is found in the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Africa.[1]

The wingspan is about 17 mm. The forewings are fuscous with a purplish tinge and with an almost obsolete darker fuscous spot beyond the end of the cell. The hindwings are cinereous.[2]

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