Compsoctena scriba

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Compsoctena scriba
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C. scriba
Binomial name
Compsoctena scriba
(Meyrick, 1921)
Synonyms
  • Melasina scribaMeyrick, 1921

Compsoctena scriba is a moth in the family Eriocottidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1921. [1] It is found in Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. [2]

The wingspan is about 27 mm. The forewings are grey irregularly sprinkled with whitish, transversely strigulated with dark fuscous irroration (speckles) and with a transverse strigula of blackish scales towards the dorsum at one-fourth. There is a somewhat oblique blackish strigula in the disc before the middle, and a longer more strongly reversed-oblique blackish striga at the end of the cell. The V-shaped grey space beneath the middle of the disc is also somewhat marked with black on the upper part of the sides. The hindwings are rather dark grey. [3]

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References

  1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Compsoctena scriba". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index . Natural History Museum . Retrieved May 20, 2018.
  2. De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2019). "Compsoctena scriba (Meyrick, 1921)". Afromoths. Retrieved August 22, 2020.
  3. Meyrick, E. (July 14, 1921). "Descriptions of South African Micro-Lepidoptera". Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 8 (2): 136 via Biodiversity Heritage Library.PD-icon.svgThis article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .