Parapsectris lacunosa

Parapsectris lacunosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Gelechiidae
Genus:	Parapsectris
Species:	P. lacunosa
Binomial name
	Parapsectris lacunosa; (Meyrick, 1918)
Synonyms
	Epithectis lacunosa Meyrick, 1918; Athrips lacunosa;

Parapsectris lacunosa is a moth in the Gelechiidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1918. It is found in Namibia and South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal, Gauteng).^[1]^[2]

The wingspan is about 10 mm. The forewings are reddish-ochreous or ferruginous with the markings grey irrorated with black. There is a narrow fascia from the base of the costa to the dorsum before the middle and a narrow oblique fascia from the costa at one-fourth, below the middle running into a narrow fascia which runs from a flattened-triangular blotch on the middle of the costa to the dorsum beyond the middle and coalesces there with the first fascia. There is also a patch of irregular marbling towards the costa posteriorly, connected by a very irregular blotch with the dorsum before the tornus, edged posteriorly by a white mark near the dorsum. The hindwings are slaty-grey.^[3]

References

^ funet.fi
^ Afro Moths
^ Ann. Transv. Mus. 6 (2) : 16 Archived 2015-06-19 at the Wayback Machine

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[1] unet.fi

[2] Afro Moths

[3] Ann. Transv. Mus. 6 (2) : 16 Archived 2015-06-19 at the Wayback Machine

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