''Cophomantella homogramma'' 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 ...

in the family

Lecithoceridae The Lecithoceridae, or long-horned moths, are a family of small moths described by Simon Le Marchand in 1947. Although lecithocerids are found throughout the world, the great majority are found in the Indomalayan realm and the southern part of th ...

. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1918. It is known from

South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring countri ...

. The

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is about 13 mm. The forewings are dark purplish fuscous with a somewhat irregular straight transverse whitish-ochreous line at two-fifths, somewhat expanded on the costa. There is a small whitish-ochreous spot on the costa at four-fifths, where a fine somewhat curved line of scattered whitish-ochreous scales runs to the dorsum before the tornus. The hindwings are grey.

References

Endemic moths of South Africa Moths described in 1918 Cophomantella Taxa named by Edward Meyrick {{Lecithoceridae-stub