''Cathegesis angulifera'' is a

moth Moths are a group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not Butterfly, butterflies. They were previously classified as suborder Heterocera, but the group is Paraphyly, paraphyletic with respect to butterflies (s ...

in the family

Gelechiidae The Gelechiidae are a family of moths commonly referred to as twirler moths or gelechiid moths. They are the namesake family of the huge and little-studied Taxonomic rank, superfamily Gelechioidea, and the family's taxonomy (biology), taxonomy ...

. It was described by

Thomas de Grey, 6th Baron Walsingham Thomas de Grey, 6th Baron Walsingham (29 July 1843 – 3 December 1919), of Merton Hall, Norfolk, was an English politician and amateur entomologist. Family business Walsingham was the son of Thomas de Grey, 5th Baron Walsingham, and Augusta- ...

, in 1897. It is found on the

West Indies The West Indies is an island subregion of the Americas, surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, which comprises 13 independent island country, island countries and 19 dependent territory, dependencies in thr ...

. The

wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the opposite wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–200 has a wingspan of , and a wandering albatross (''Diomedea exulans'') caught in 1965 had a wingsp ...

is about 9 mm. The forewings are hoary greyish, with slight greyish-fuscous speckled shading. There is a small elongate blackish spot at the base of the costa and a blackish transverse spot on the fold at one-fourth from the base, followed by a smaller length-spot in the fold. There is also an outwardly oblique greyish fuscous shade at the middle of the costa, mixed with some chestnut scales, terminating in a slender curved line on the outer end of the cell. Before the apex is a slender hoary whitish transverse fascia, slightly angulated outwards on the middle and preceded by a greyish-fuscous shade mixed with some chestnut. The pale fascia is connected at each extremity with an internally dark margined pale line which passes around the base of the cilia, interrupted only at the extreme apex and forming a triangular pattern. A reduplicated slender fuscous and chestnut line runs through the hoary cilia along the termen. The hindwings are leaden grey.Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1897 : 82
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References

Moths described in 1897 Dichomeridinae Moths of the Caribbean {{Dichomeridinae-stub