Compsolechia peculella

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

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

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   This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.