Tecmerium spermophagia

Tecmerium spermophagia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Blastobasidae
Genus: Tecmerium
Species: T. spermophagia
Binomial name
Tecmerium spermophagia
Walsingham, 1907

Tecmerium spermophagia is a moth in the Blastobasidae family. It is found in Portugal and Spain.[1]

The wingspan is 14–17 mm. The forewings are whitish cinereous, dusted with brownish grey. The hindwings are shining pale brownish grey.

Larvae have been reared from seed-whorls of Phlomis purpurea.[2]

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