''Triclonella pictoria'' 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

Cosmopterigidae The Cosmopterigidae are a family of insects (cosmet moths) in the order Lepidoptera. These are small moths with narrow wings whose tiny larvae feed internally on the leaves, seeds and stems of their host plants. About 1500 species are described. ...

. It is found in

Guyana Guyana ( or ), officially the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, is a country on the northern mainland of South America. Guyana is an indigenous word which means "Land of Many Waters". The capital city is Georgetown. Guyana is bordered by the ...

and

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

. The

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

is about 21 mm. The forewings are ochreous-bronze with a white basal mark in the middle. The extreme dorsal edge is white, thickened towards the base. A very fine white line is found along the submedian fold from the base to the middle of the wing and there is a white line from two-thirds of the costa to four-fifths of the dorsum, the discal portion forming an acute angle inwards, the area beyond this wholly dark fuscous streaked with white irroration on the veins. The terminal edge is white. The hindwings are dark grey, lighter anteriorly, with hyaline areas towards the base in and beneath the cell.

References

Natural History Museum Lepidoptera generic names catalog
Cosmopteriginae Moths described in 1916 Moths of South America {{Cosmopteriginae-stub

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