Filatima gomphopis is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Texas.[1][2]

Filatima gomphopis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Filatima
Species:
F. gomphopis
Binomial name
Filatima gomphopis
(Meyrick, 1927)
Synonyms
  • Gelechia gomphopis Meyrick, 1927

The wingspan is 16–17 mm. The forewings are whitish-grey, sometimes minutely speckled darker or with a few scattered blackish scales. The base of the costal edge is black and there is a small spot of greyish suffusion in the disc before the first stigmata. The plical and first discal stigmata are small or minute, black, accompanied by small pale yellow-ochreous dots, the plical somewhat anterior, the second discal forming a short thick black dash, all these surrounded with whiter suffusion. There is a small blackish spot on the costa before two-thirds, from beyond this a faint whiter angulated transverse shade more or less perceptible. The hindwings are light bluish-grey.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Filatima at funet
  2. ^ mothphotographersgroup
  3. ^ Exot. Microlep. 3 (11): 350  This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.