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Comocritis nephelista

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Comocritis nephelista
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C. nephelista
Binomial name
Comocritis nephelista
(Meyrick, 1914)
Synonyms
  • Aetherastis nephelista Meyrick, 1914

Comocritis nephelista is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae. It was described by Meyrick in 1914. It is found in Sri Lanka.[1]

The wingspan is 16–20 mm (0.63–0.79 in). The forewings are white-brownish irrorated with dark fuscous, more strongly posteriorly. There is a suffused white streak along the costa from about one-third to near the apex and two small indistinct dark fuscous spots obliquely placed towards the costa at one-fourth. A suffused whitish streak encloses an elongate semi-oval patch of stronger dark irroration along the median third of the dorsum and there is some indistinct whitish admixture in the disc posteriorly, sometimes forming a suffused streak running to the termen above the tornus. There are also four small indistinct cloudy dark fuscous spots around the apex and termen. The hindwings are light grey.[2]

References

  1. ^ funet.fi
  2. ^ Meyrick, E. (1906). "Descriptions of Indian Microlepidoptera, part XVIII". Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 23 (1): 129. Retrieved 16 June 2020 – via Internet Archive.