Commatica cryptina

Commatica cryptina
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Gelechiidae
Genus:	Commatica
Species:	C. cryptina
Binomial name
	Commatica cryptina; (Walsingham, 1911)
Synonyms
	Untomia cryptina Walsingham, 1911;

Commatica cryptina is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Thomas de Grey, 6th Baron Walsingham, in 1911. It is found in Mexico (Tabasco).^[1]

The wingspan is 8–9 mm. The forewings are dark tawny brownish fuscous, slightly bestrewn with steely grey scales and with a slender pale steel-grey streak running obliquely outward from the commencement of the costal cilia to a little below the apex, where it is angulated and continued indistinctly to the tornus. The hindwings are dark bronzy brownish.^[2]

References

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[2] Biol. centr.-amer. Lep. Heterocera 4 : 76 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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