Exaeretia thoracenigraeella

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| taxon = Exaeretia thoracenigraeella

| authority = (Chambers, 1875)

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• Gelechia thoracenigraeella Chambers, 1875
• Depressariodes thoracenigraeella
• Martyrhilda thoracenigraeella
• Depressaria novimundi Walsingham, 1881
• Depressaria thoracinigrella Meyrick, 1922

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Exaeretia thoracenigraeella is a moth in the family Depressariidae.{{LepIndex |id=108753 |accessdate=May 18, 2018}} It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from California and Oregon.[http://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu/species.php?hodges=903 mothphotographersgroup][http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/gelechioidea/depressariidae/depressariinae/exaeretia/ "Exaeretia Stainton, 1849"] at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

The wingspan is 16–20 mm. The forewings are pale ochreous-grey, with a blackish fuscous base. There is a fuscous shade from the costa to the middle of the cell, edged above and below with brown and preceded by a conspicuous outwardly oblique black dash. There is a series of greyish-fuscous spots on the costa and around the termen. The hindwings are brownish fuscous.[https://archive.org/stream/proceedingsofuni901942unit#page/82/mode/1up Proceedings of the United States National Museum 90 (3107): 82] {{PD-notice}}