Mesophleps gigantella, Li & Sattler, 2012

Li, Houhun & Sattler, Klaus, 2012, A taxonomic revision of the genus Mesophleps Hübner, 1825 (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) 3373, Zootaxa 3373, pp. 1-82 : 41

Mesophleps gigantella -group

Wingspan 16.0–26.0 mm. Labial palpus moderately recurved, segment 2 distally widened by erectile dorsal scales, dark with white distal ring; segment 3 shorter than 2, usually white, sometimes with black apex. Head, thorax and tegulae uniformly of forewing ground colour. Forewing greyish white to yellowish brown, costa with uninterrupted blackish brown stripe, black plical, discal and discocellular spots more or less distinct, discal sometimes reduced, rarely absent; sometimes diffuse tornal spot present; black terminal spots sometimes small.

Genitalia ♂ ( Fig. 75). Posterior margin of abdominal SVIII deeply emarginated, uncus long, narrow, gnathos hooks big, robust, strongly sclerotized.

Genitalia ♀ ( Figs 103, 104, 133, 134). Corpus bursae with small signum separating ductus bursae and ductus seminalis.

Biology. Host-plants unknown.

Distribution ( Figs 23, 24). China (Yunnan), East Africa ( Kenya, Uganda).