Compsoctena barbarella is a moth in the family Eriocottidae. It was described by Francis Walker in 1856. It is found in India.[1]
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Eriocottidae |
Genus: | Compsoctena |
Species: | C. barbarella
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Binomial name | |
Compsoctena barbarella (Walker, 1856)
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Adults are cinereous (ash-gray) fawn, the forewings with two oblique very incomplete and much interrupted bands formed by the speckles. The hindwings are cinereous.[2]
References
edit- ^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Compsoctena barbarella". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved April 30, 2018.
- ^ Walker, F. 1863. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part XXVIII.– Tortricites & Tineites; p. 515 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.