Pyncostola invida
Appearance
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Gelechiidae |
Genus: | Pyncostola |
Species: | P. invida
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Binomial name | |
Pyncostola invida (Meyrick, 1911)
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Pyncostola invida is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1911. It is found in South Africa, where it has been recorded from the Eastern Cape.[1][2]
The wingspan is about 26 mm. The forewings are dark fuscous, slightly whitish sprinkled, streaked with ochreous brown between the veins in the disc. There is a slender black streak along the sub-median fold from near the base to the middle of the wing, edged above by a whitish streak. There is a slender black streak in the disc from the middle to near three-fourths, as well as a streak of blackish suffusion along the upper part of the termen to the apex. The hindwings are rather dark grey.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Savela, Markku, ed. (June 16, 2014). "Pyncostola invida (Meyrick, 1911)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved September 10, 2020.
- ^ De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2019). "Pyncostola invida (Meyrick, 1911)". Afromoths. Retrieved September 10, 2020.
- ^ Meyrick, E. (April 1911). "Descriptions of South African Micro-Lepidoptera". Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 3 (1): 64 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.