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

Compsolechia pungens is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1922. It is found in Peru.

The wingspan is 16–18 mm. The forewings are fuscous, slightly speckled with whitish with a very oblique thick streak of dark brown suffusion from the dorsum at one-fourth reaching more than half way across the wing, limiting a basal patch of ochieous-brown suffusion not reaching the costa and edged above by a small cloudy spot of dark fuscous suffusion at the base, and an indistinct slender very oblique streak from the costa near the base to its posterior extremity. A small obscurely darker spot is found in the middle of the disc and there is some brown suffusion along the median area of the costa, terminated by a suffused dark brown spot preceding the subterminal line. There is a fine whitish line from three-fourths of the costa to the dorsum before the tornus, angulated in the middle, the upper half incurved, the lower straight or slightly dentate beneath the angle, with a short dash projecting from the angle towards a short black pre-terminal dash. The apical area is light brownish, with a thick ochreous-brown marginal streak around the posterior part of the costa and termen, an oval black spot lying in this above the apex. The hindwings are dark grey.

References

1. Savela, Markku (October 30, 2018). "Compsolechia pungens Meyrick, 1922". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 23, 2020.
2. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. 1922: 95. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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