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Compsolechia amaurota

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Compsolechia amaurota
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C. amaurota
Binomial name
Compsolechia amaurota
(Meyrick, 1914)
Synonyms
  • Anacampsis amaurota Meyrick, 1914

Compsolechia amaurota is a moth of the Gelechiidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1914. It is found in Guyana.[1]

The wingspan is 16-17 mm. The forewings are dark fuscous, somewhat sprinkled with white on the anterior half and with black basal dots on the costa and dorsum and in the middle. There is a moderate oblique fasciaform blackish spot from one-fifth of the dorsum reaching two-thirds across the wing. The stigmata are hardly darker, the discal approximated, the plical rather obliquely before the first discal. There is some blackish-fuscous suffusion towards the costa from the middle to the subterminal line and a fine white slightly curved subterminal line from three-fourths of the costa, becoming irregular and broken in the disc and not reaching the tornus. An elongate black spot is found beneath the costa before the apex, with a very short white dash beneath this, and two black dashes towards the upper part of the termen, edged with a few white scales posteriorly. The hindwings are dark fuscous, the submedian fold in males forming a deep pale fuscous groove, its margins clothed with short hairs.[2]

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