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Cosmopterix macroglossa
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Cosmopterigidae
Genus:	Cosmopterix
Species:	C. macroglossa'
Binomial name
Cosmopterix macroglossa' Meyrick, 1913

Cosmopterix macroglossa is a moth in the family Cosmopterigidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1913. It is found in South Africa.

The wingspan is 14–15 mm. The forewings are bronzy ochreous with a fine white costal streak from the base to the band and with the costal edge dark fuscous from the base to one-third of the wing. There is a slender white median streak reaching from the base to the band and a white subdorsal line from one-fourth to the band, converging to the apex of the median streak. The dorsal edge is white from the base to the band and there is a narrow pale ochreous-yellow median band, the anterior edge marked with two pale golden-metallic spots, the upper followed by a black dot and then by a fuscous mark interrupting the band, the posterior edge suffusedly margined with silvery followed by pale yellow, where a white streak (at first rather broad but soon becoming narrower) runs along the termen to the apex. The hindwings are pale grey.

References

1. De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2019). "Cosmopterix macroglossa Meyrick, 1913". Afromoths. Retrieved August 24, 2020.
2. Meyrick, E. (January 1913). "Descriptions of South African Micro-Lepidoptera: IV". Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 3 (4): 306 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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