''Procometis mistharma'' 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 ...
in the family
Autostichidae
Autostichidae is a family of moths in the moth superfamily Gelechioidea
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Gelechioidea (from the type genus '' Gelechia'', "keeping to the ground") is the superfamily of moths that contains the case-bearers, twirler moths, and relatives ...
. It was described by
Edward Meyrick
Edward Meyrick (25 November 1854, in Ramsbury – 31 March 1938, at Thornhanger, Marlborough) was an English schoolmaster and amateur entomologist. He was an expert on microlepidoptera and some consider him one of the founders of modern m ...
in 1908. It is found in
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...
.
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 ...
is 11–14 mm. The forewings are light brownish ochreous, more or less irrorated (sprinkled) finely with brown or fuscous and with a black dot on the base of the costa. The stigmata are blackish, the discal rather near together, the plical directly beneath the first discal. There is a row of blackish dots along the posterior part of the costa and termen to before the tornus. The hindwings are grey.
''Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society''. 18 (3): 634.
References
Moths described in 1908
Procometis
Taxa named by Edward Meyrick
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