Glauce is a genus of moths in the family Gelechiidae. It contains only one species, Glauce pectenalaeella, which is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Mississippi, Quebec, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and West Virginia.[1][2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gelechiidae |
| Subfamily: | Gelechiinae |
| Tribe: | Litini |
| Genus: | Glauce Chambers, 1875[1] |
| Species: | G. pectenalaeella
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| Binomial name | |
| Glauce pectenalaeella Chambers, 1875
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The ground color is pale yellowish, almost entirely obscured by dense fuscous dusting and fuscous spots. The apex of the forewings is more deeply fuscous.[3]
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- ^ a b "Glauce". ftp.funet.fi. Markku Savela. Retrieved 3 July 2022.
- ^ "Glauce pectenalaeella". mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu. Mississippi Entomological Museum. Retrieved 3 July 2022.
- ^ Can. Ent. 7 (1): 12
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