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Compsoctena cyclatma

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Eriocottidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Compsoctena

Compsoctena cyclatma is a moth in the Eriocottidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1908. It is found in Mozambique, South Africa (Limpopo), Zambia and Zimbabwe.

The wingspan is about 28 mm. The forewings are fuscous, somewhat sprinkled with whitish and irregularly and suffusedly irrorated with blackish-fuscous, the confluence of irroration forming several irregular broken longitudinal marks, and three or four spots on the posterior half of the costa. There is a rounded blotch of whitish suffusion on the dorsum before the middle, and an irregular streak of whitish suffusion along the posterior third of the dorsum and termen to the apex. The hindwings are grey.

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Compsoctena cyclatma Wikipedia