Compsolechia molybdina is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Thomas de Grey, 6th Baron Walsingham, in 1910. It is found in Mexico (Guerrero).[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gelechiidae |
| Genus: | Compsolechia |
| Species: | C. molybdina
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| Binomial name | |
| Compsolechia molybdina (Walsingham, 1910)
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Description
editThe wingspan is about 14 mm. The forewings are shining, purplish-grey, with an inwardly diffused transverse fascia on the outer third, angulated outward about its middle and bounded along its outer edge by an indistinct narrow pale line, beyond which, after a slight purplish shade, the remainder of the wing to the apex is slaty grey, rather paler than the basal part. Around the termen and around the depressed obtusely angulated apex runs a blackish line at the base of the pale slaty grey cilia. The hindwings are brown.[2]
Attributes
editCompsolechia molybdina has the following traits:[3]
- Refracting superposition eyes
- Wing morphology
- Behavioral circadian rhythm
References
edit- ^ funet.fi
- ^ Biol. centr.-amer. Lep. Heterocera 4 : 36
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ "Compsolechia molybdina Walsingham 1910". EOL. Retrieved 2021-11-30.
