Commatica chionura is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1914. It is found in Guyana and Peru.[1]

Commatica chionura
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Commatica
Species:
C. chionura
Binomial name
Commatica chionura
Meyrick, 1914

The wingspan is 9–10 mm. The forewings are dark violet grey becoming blackish posteriorly. The stigmata are cloudy, blackish, sometimes more or less absorbed in the blackish suffusion, with the plical obliquely before the first discal. There is a very oblique white strigula from the costa at two-thirds, where a faint interrupted whitish line runs to near the termen beneath the apex, then curved very near the termen to the tornus. A brown mark is found along the costa beyond this, terminated by a white pre-apical dot. The hindwings are dark fuscous.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Savela, Markku (February 12, 2015). "Commatica chionura Meyrick, 1914". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 20, 2020.
  2. ^ Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. 1914: 240.   This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.