Cosmopterix macroglossa

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Cosmopterix macroglossa
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Cosmopterigidae
Genus: Cosmopterix
Species:
C. macroglossa'
Binomial name
Cosmopterix macroglossa'
Meyrick, 1913

Cosmopterix macroglossa is a moth in the family Cosmopterigidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1913. It is found in South Africa. [1]

The wingspan is 14–15 mm. The forewings are bronzy ochreous with a fine white costal streak from the base to the band and with the costal edge dark fuscous from the base to one-third of the wing. There is a slender white median streak reaching from the base to the band and a white subdorsal line from one-fourth to the band, converging to the apex of the median streak. The dorsal edge is white from the base to the band and there is a narrow pale ochreous-yellow median band, the anterior edge marked with two pale golden-metallic spots, the upper followed by a black dot and then by a fuscous mark interrupting the band, the posterior edge suffusedly margined with silvery followed by pale yellow, where a white streak (at first rather broad but soon becoming narrower) runs along the termen to the apex. The hindwings are pale grey. [2]

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References

  1. ↑ De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2019). "Cosmopterix macroglossa Meyrick, 1913". Afromoths. Retrieved August 24, 2020.
  2. ↑ Meyrick, E. (January 1913). "Descriptions of South African Micro-Lepidoptera: IV". Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 3 (4): 306 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.PD-icon.svgThis article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .


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