Year: 1900
Type: article
Abstract: Nearly all were taken in the larval state and reared by him or by the writer, or by us both.The food plants were determined by Mr. F. Kinzel, of Palm Beach.The following species, I believe, are new to science.All the types have been deposited in the U. S. National Museun.Family GELECHIID.ARISTOTELIA Hubner.ARISTOTELIA IVA, new species, (Plate I, fig.1.) Antenne #,' finely serrated, dark fuscous, annulated with white.Labial palpi very long, curved, second joint thickened with appressed scales, yellow with three black bars on outside; apical joint longer than second, acute, yellow with two black bars.Face, head, and thorax light brownish gray with a dark fuscous, central, longitudinal line on head and thorax; tegule dark brown.Forewings with the markings of A. roseosuffusella Clemens, but with different coloration.Ground color light silvery drab, on the outer half freely dusted with white and black scales; from costa two dark brown, nearly black, bands reaching the fold; the first from base of costa obliquely out-'This abbreviation, with others here used, is adopted from Meyrick's Handbook of British Lepidoptera (1895), London and New York.
Author: August Busck
Language: English
Subfield: Genetics
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2075635181