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Aristotelia comis

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Gelechiidae

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Aristotelia

Aristotelia comis is a moth of the Gelechiidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1913. It is found in South Africa, where it has been recorded from Mpumalanga, Gauteng, Limpopo and KwaZulu-Natal.

The wingspan is about 11 mm. The forewings are grey irrorated with whitish and blackish and with a small ochreous-brown spot in the disc near the base. There is an irregular blackish interrupted line crossing the wing near beyond this and there are two moderate ochreous-brown fasciae about one-third and two-thirds, edged with whitish, and irrorated with blackish towards the costa, the first oblique, its posterior edge with a strong prominence below the middle, surmounted by a black dot, the second direct, dilated towards the costa. A black longitudinal mark is found in the disc beyond this and there is an ochreous-brown apical spot, its angles produced along the costa and termen. The hindwings are grey.

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Aristotelia comis Wikipedia