''Compsolechia halmyra'' 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 ...

of 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

Edward Meyrick Edward Meyrick (25 November 1854 – 31 March 1938) was an English schoolmaster and amateur entomologist. He was an expert on microlepidoptera and some consider him one of the founders of modern microlepidoptera systematics. Life and work Ed ...

in 1914. It is found in

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and

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. The

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is 12–13 mm. The forewings are dark grey, more or less variably sprinkled or mixed with white on the anterior half and with small black subcostal and subdorsal spots at the base and a thick oblique black streak from one-fifth of the dorsum to the disc, the apex sometimes expanded. There are two blackish dots towards the costa above this. The stigmata are moderate and blackish, the discal approximated, the plical rather before the first discal. There is a fine white slightly interrupted subterminal line from four-fifths of the costa to the tornus, slightly sinuate inwards towards the costa, preceded by a dark fuscous fascia. A black wedge-shaped longitudinal mark rests on the costa near the apex, and two black dashes are found towards the upper part of the termen, between these markings are some indistinct suffused whitish dashes. The hindwings are dark fuscous with the submedian fold in males filled with long hairs.''Transactions of the Entomological Society of London''. 1914: 262.

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