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Compsolechia mesodelta

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Species of moth

Compsolechia mesodelta
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Compsolechia
Species: C. mesodelta
Binomial name
Compsolechia mesodelta
Meyrick, 1922

Compsolechia mesodelta is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1922. It is found in Amazonas, Brazil.

The wingspan is 10–11 mm. The forewings are grey with a faint greenish tinge, sometimes sprinkled with whitish. There is a triangular blackish blotch on the middle of the costa reaching half way across the wing and a faint pale somewhat irregular line from four-fifths of the costa to the tornus, the costal and terminal area beyond this suffused with blackish, in the whitish-sprinkled example a terminal line of whitish irroration. The hindwings are dark fuscous.

References

  1. Savela, Markku (October 30, 2018). "Compsolechia mesodelta Meyrick, 1922". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 23, 2020.
  2. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. 1922: 83. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
Taxon identifiers
Compsolechia mesodelta

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