''Compsoctena aethalea'' is a
moth in the family
Eriocottidae
Eriocottidae or Old World spiny-winged moths is a family of insects in the order Lepidoptera whose position relative to other members of the superfamily Tineoidea is currently unknown. There are two subfamilies, Compsocteninae and Eriocottinae.
...
. It was described by
Edward Meyrick in 1907. It is found in
India.
The
wingspan is 30–34 mm for males and about 46 mm for females. The forewings of the males are dark fuscous, finely irrorated (sprinkled) with whitish. In females, they are paler, strewn with blackish-fuscous strigulae. There is a dark fuscous transverse fascia-like blotch from the middle of the dorsum, reaching about half way across the wing and a similar blotch from the middle of the costa directed towards the tornus, reaching more than half way across the wing. The costa is more or less spotted alternately with pale ochreous yellowish and dark fuscous posteriorly and there are two or three dark fuscous subterminal spots sometimes united into an incomplete fascia. The hindwings are blackish fuscous.
''Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society''. 18 (1): 159.
References
Moths described in 1907
Compsoctena
Moths of Asia
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