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Pyncostola pachyacma

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Pyncostola pachyacma
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P. pachyacma
Binomial name
Pyncostola pachyacma
Meyrick, 1926

Pyncostola pachyacma is a moth of the Gelechiidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1926. It is found in South Africa, where it has been recorded from the Western Cape.[1][2]

The wingspan is about 20 mm. The forewings are white, irregularly irrorated dark grey with a ferruginous-ochreous spot at the base of the dorsum and an oblique bar of dark grey suffusion from the base of the costa to the fold, spotted with ferruginous-ochreous on the extremities. There is an oval spot of dark grey irroration suffused with ferruginous-ochreous towards the costa at one-third. The stigmata form dark grey spots suffused with larger ferruginous-ochreous spots, the plical obliquely before the first discal. The dorsal edge is shortly ferruginous-ochreous before the tornus and a streak of ferruginous-ochreous suffusion along the lower three-fifths of the termen. The hindwings are grey-whitish.[3]

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