Eulamprotes nigromaculella

Eulamprotes nigromaculella is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in Spain, France, Italy, Greece, Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily, Crete, Cyprus and Ukraine.^[2]

Eulamprotes nigromaculella
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Gelechiidae
Genus:	Eulamprotes
Species:	E. nigromaculella
Binomial name
Eulamprotes nigromaculella (Millière, 1872)[1]
Synonyms
Gelechia nigromaculella Millière, 1872 Monochroa nigromaculella Bryotropha angustipennis Rebel, 1931 Eulamprotes donskoffi Nel & Luquet, 1997 Doryphora punctatella Staudinger, 1879 Aristotelia morphochrona Walsingham, 1900 Aristotelia jactatrix Meyrick, 1926 Aristotelia craterotypa Meyrick, 1938

The wingspan is about 12 mm. The forewings are whitish irrorated (speckled) dark grey with a small blackish spot on the costa near the base, one at one-fifth, one on the fold slightly beyond this, and one beneath the costa at one-third. The stigmata form oval black spots, the plical very obliquely before the first discal. There is a dark grey spot on the costa at two-thirds and four small cloudy whitish spots on the costa beyond this. The hindwings are light bluish-grey.^[3]

References

1. Karsholt, Ole & Twan Rutten, 2005, the genus Bryotropha Heinemann in the western palaearctic (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae), Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 148: 77-207. Abstract and full article:
2. Fauna Europaea
3. Description of Aristotelia jactatrix in Exot. Microlep. 3 (9): 272 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.