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Comotechna scutulata

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Depressariidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Comotechna

Comotechna scutulata is a moth in the Depressariidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1921. It is found in Brazil.

The wingspan is about 10 mm. The forewings are rather dark fuscous with a rather broad ochreous-whitish streak along the costa from the base, marked with very oblique cloudy dark fuscous strigulae from the costa near the base and at one-fourth, and terminated by a very oblique orange-yellow blackish-edged striga from the costa before the middle, followed by a white posteriorly black-edged strigula and a large medio-dorsal rather oblique transverse dark fuscous blotch edged whitish, reaching three-fourths across the wing, the anterior edge strongly convex, the posterior almost straight, the apex shortly projecting posteriorly, a transverse fasciate streak of dark fuscous suffusion edged on each side with grey-whitish suffusion midway between this and the base. There is an irregular transverse leaden line at three-fourths, preceded on the dorsal half by an 8-shaped darker blotch edged ochreous-whitish, on the costa followed by an ochreous-whitish dot. There are some slight marks of ochreous-whitish suffusion in the disc beyond this, as well as an oblique leaden line before the apex from an ochreous-whitish spot in the costal cilia, then to the tornus abutting on an ochreous-whitish terminal line. The hindwings are dark fuscous.

References

Comotechna scutulata Wikipedia