Lampronia altaica
Olle PellmyrAdult Characteristics
Description in Zagulajev (1992) with head, legs, and male genitalia depicted. Female depicted in Kozlov (1996). Wingspan male 10-5-11.5 mm, female 9 mm. Forewing brownish gray, with purplish violet lustre. Three yellowish orange spots along costa, and two along rear edge; basal spots at times alomost merging into a band. Hindwing uncolored brownish gray with a metallic lustre.
Geographic Distribution
Known only from the Altai Mountains of central Asia and from Ryanggang province, North Korea.
References
Kozlov, M.V. 1996. Incurvariidae and Prodoxidae (Lepidoptera) from Siberia and the Russian Far East, with descriptions of two new species. Entomol. Fenn. 7:55-62.
Zagulajev, A.K. 1992. New and little known microlepidoptera (Lepidoptera: Incurvariidae, Tineidae, Psychidae, Alucitidae) of the fauna of the USSR. V. Entomol. Obozr. 71:105-120.
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