The wingspan is 12–15 mm. The costal area of the forewings is variably tinged or suffused with white. There is a white subdorsal streak from the base to the tornus, leaving a narrow grey dorsal streak. The hindwings are grey.[3]
elachista, plagiaula, moth, family, elachistidae, described, edward, meyrick, 1938, found, zealand, scientific, classificationdomain, eukaryotakingdom, animaliaphylum, arthropodaclass, insectaorder, lepidopterafamily, elachistidaegenus, elachistaspecies, plagi. Elachista plagiaula is a moth in the family Elachistidae It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1938 1 It is found in New Zealand 2 Elachista plagiaulaScientific classificationDomain EukaryotaKingdom AnimaliaPhylum ArthropodaClass InsectaOrder LepidopteraFamily ElachistidaeGenus ElachistaSpecies E plagiaulaBinomial nameElachista plagiaula Meyrick 1938 SynonymsThectophila plagiaula Meyrick 1938The wingspan is 12 15 mm The costal area of the forewings is variably tinged or suffused with white There is a white subdorsal streak from the base to the tornus leaving a narrow grey dorsal streak The hindwings are grey 3 References Edit Beccaloni G Scoble M Kitching I Simonsen T Robinson G Pitkin B Hine A Lyal C eds 2003 Thectophila plagiaula The Global Lepidoptera Names Index Natural History Museum Retrieved May 23 2018 Elachista at funet Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand 1868 1961 Volume 67 1938 This article on a moth of the genus Elachista is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Elachista plagiaula amp oldid 1129501313, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
