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Compsolechia peculella

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Compsolechia peculella
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Compsolechia
Species:
C. peculella
Binomial name
Compsolechia peculella
(Busck, 1914)
Synonyms
  • Anacampsis peculella Busck, 1914

Compsolechia peculella is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by August Busck in 1914. It is found in Panama.[1]

The wingspan is 11–12 mm. The forewings are white but so strongly and evenly overlaid with dark brown scales as to be obscured, except under magnification. Near the base is a broad, outwardly oblique, dark brown costal streak, reaching beyond the fold and on the middle of the costa is a large, triangular spot, reaching to the lower edge of the cell. There is a small, moon-shaped, dark brown spot at the end of the cell and just before the termen and parallel with it is a broad, dark brown fascia, and between it and the discal spot is a narrower, less pronounced and slightly convex, dark brown fascia. The hindwings are dark brownish fuscous.[2]

References

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  1. ^ "Compsolechia Meyrick, 1918" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved July 7, 2017.
  2. ^ Proceedings of the United States National Museum 47 (2043): 7 Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.