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Pyncostola invida
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Gelechiidae
Genus:	Pyncostola
Species:	P. invida
Binomial name
Pyncostola invida (Meyrick, 1911)
Synonyms
Paltodora invida Meyrick, 1911

Pyncostola invida is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1911. It is found in South Africa, where it has been recorded from the Eastern Cape.

The wingspan is about 26 mm. The forewings are dark fuscous, slightly whitish sprinkled, streaked with ochreous brown between the veins in the disc. There is a slender black streak along the sub-median fold from near the base to the middle of the wing, edged above by a whitish streak. There is a slender black streak in the disc from the middle to near three-fourths, as well as a streak of blackish suffusion along the upper part of the termen to the apex. The hindwings are rather dark grey.

References

1. Savela, Markku, ed. (June 16, 2014). "Pyncostola invida (Meyrick, 1911)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved September 10, 2020.
2. De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2019). "Pyncostola invida (Meyrick, 1911)". Afromoths. Retrieved September 10, 2020.
3. Meyrick, E. (April 1911). "Descriptions of South African Micro-Lepidoptera". Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 3 (1): 64 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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