Cartericella

Cartericella is a monotypic moth genus in the family Gelechiidae described by Thomas Bainbrigge Fletcher in 1940. It contains the species Cartericella phthoneropa, described by Edward Meyrick in 1917, which is found in Shanghai, China.^[1]

Cartericella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Gelechiidae
Subfamily:	Gelechiinae
Genus:	Cartericella T. B. Fletcher, 1940
Species:	C. phthoneropa
Binomial name
Cartericella phthoneropa (Meyrick, 1917)
Synonyms
Carterica Meyrick, 1925 (preocc. Thomson, 1860) Homaloxestis phthoneropa Meyrick, 1922

The wingspan is about 9 mm. The forewings are dark fuscous, the base of the scales whitish. The stigmata are rather large and blackish, the plical and first discal elongate, the plical somewhat anterior and the second discal transverse. There is a small white spot on the costa at three-fourths, and less distinct one on the dorsum rather anterior. The hindwings are grey.^[2]