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''Procometis coniochersa'' 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 Autostichidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1922. It is found in north-western
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. 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 40 mm. The forewings are light grey irregularly irrorated (sprinkled) with whitish-grey grey-tipped scales. The costal edge is whitish from near the base to three-fourths. The stigmata are cloudy, dark grey, the plical beneath the first discal, the discal joined by an obscure streak of whitish suffusion. There is a line of whitish suffusion along the fold. The hindwings are light grey.''Arkiv För Zoologi''. 14 (15): 10.


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Moths described in 1922 Procometis Taxa named by Edward Meyrick {{Autostichinae-stub