Filatima natalis: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Gelechiidae
- Genus
- Filatima
- Species
- Filatima natalis
- Scientific Name
- Filatima natalis
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Filatima natalis
Filatima natalis is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Arizona, Colorado and Oregon.
The wingspan is 17–20 mm. The forewings are white scaled, with the tips of the scales bluish. The costa is lighter than the rest of the wing near the base and there is a faint streak of dark scaling on the basal fourth of the costa, as well as a similar spot on the outer third of the costa. Near the base of the cell, before the middle a faint dark streak, and two dark spots in the cell on its outer costal margin, there often fusing and forming a single short, indistinct, longitudinal streak. The hindwings are pale, somewhat smoky towards the apex and along the veins.
The larvae feed on Razoumofskya cryptopoda.
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Sibling Taxa
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- Filatima angustipennis
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- Filatima aulaea
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- Filatima bigella
- Filatima biminimaculella
- Filatima catacrossa
- Filatima collinearis
- Filatima confusatella
- Filatima cushmani
- Filatima demissae
- Filatima depuratella
- Filatima djakovica
- Filatima epulatrix
- Filatima fontisella
- Filatima frugalis
- Filatima fuliginea
- Filatima glycyrhizaeella
- Filatima golovina
- Filatima gomphopis
- Filatima hemicrossa
- Filatima incomptella
- Filatima inquilinella
- Filatima isocrossa
- Filatima karsholti
- Filatima monotaeniella
- Filatima multicornuta
- Filatima natalis
- Filatima neotrophella
- Filatima nigrimediella
- Filatima nigripectus
- Filatima normifera
- Filatima nucifer
- Filatima obidenna
- Filatima obscuroocelella
- Filatima obscurosuffusella
- Filatima ochreosuffusella
- Filatima ornatifimbriella
- Filatima pallipalpella
- Filatima perpensa
- Filatima persicaeella
- Filatima platyochra
- Filatima pravinominella
- Filatima procedes
- Filatima prognosticata
- Filatima pseudacaciella
- Filatima revisensis
- Filatima saliciphaga
- Filatima sciocrypta
- Filatima serotinella
- Filatima shastaella
- Filatima sperryi
- Filatima spinigera
- Filatima spurcella
- Filatima striatella
- Filatima tephriditella
- Filatima tephrinopa
- Filatima tephritidella
- Filatima textorella
- Filatima transsilvanella
- Filatima tridentata
- Filatima ukrainica
- Filatima vaccinii
- Filatima vaniae
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- Filatima zagulajevi