Copticostola

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Copticostola
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Subfamily: Gelechiinae
Genus: Copticostola
Meyrick, 1929
Species:
C. acuminata
Binomial name
Copticostola acuminata
(Walsingham, 1911)
Synonyms
  • Untomia acuminataWalsingham, 1911

Copticostola is a genus of moths in the family Gelechiidae. It contains the species Copticostola acuminata, which is found in Tabasco, Mexico. [1]

The wingspan is about 13 mm. The forewings are ivory-white, with three diffused fuscous dorsal patches, the first short at the flexus, the second before the middle, obliquely triangular, its apex crossing the fold, a third small and indistinct close to the tornus. Along the costa is a slender blackish streak at the base, and a narrow outwardly dilated dark brown costal shade beyond the middle, through which runs a very oblique white line to a conspicuous black spot at the apex. Beneath this spot the cilia are ivory-white, with a small transverse black streak descending through them from the apex and nearly joining a streak of brown scales projecting below it from a slender terminal line of the same. The hindwings and cilia are pale brownish grey, with a whitish spot at the produced apex. [2]

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References

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  2. Biol. centr.-amer. Lep. Heterocera 4 : 75 PD-icon.svgThis article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .