Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Eriocottidae Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Compsoctena | |
Compsoctena aethalea is a moth in the Eriocottidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1907. It is found in India.
The wingspan is 30-34 mm for males and about 46 mm for females. The forewings of the males are dark fuscous, finely irrorated with whitish. In females, they are paler, strewn with blackish-fuscous strigulae. There is a dark fuscous transverse fascia-like blotch from the middle of the dorsum, reaching about half across the wing and a similar blotch from the middle of the costa directed towards the tornus, reaching more than half across the wing. The costa is more or less spotted alternately with pale ochreous-yellowish and dark fuscous posteriorly and there are two or three dark fuscous subterminal spots sometimes united into an incomplete fascia. The hindwings are blackish-fuscous.