Compsolechia Antiplaca
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''Compsolechia antiplaca'' is a
moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...
of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1922. It is found in
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and Amazonas, Brazil. The
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is 12–14 mm. The forewings are dark grey, slightly whitish speckled and with two small blackish spots beneath the costa towards the base and one above the fold at one-fourth, often obsolete. There is a black spot beneath the fold at one-fifth, always present but variable in size. The stigmata are sometimes blackish, often obsolete, with the discal approximated, the plical rather before the first discal. Some dark fuscous suffusion is found on the costa before the subterminal line and there is a white line from three-fourths of the costa to the dorsum before the tornus, very obtusely angulated above the middle and somewhat interrupted above this, beyond the interruption a black oblong spot reaching the costa near the apex, the adjoining line immediately beneath this consists of an ochreous-white blotch not reaching the termen, crossed by two black dashes, rarely a third indicated above these. The hindwings are dark fuscous, in males with a slender greyish hair-pencil in the submedian fold.''Transactions of the Entomological Society of London''. 1922: 92.


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Moths described in 1914 Compsolechia Taxa named by Edward Meyrick {{Compsolechia-stub