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Compsolechia drachmaea

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Compsolechia drachmaea is a moth of the Gelechiidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1922. It is found in Brazil (Amazonas).

The wingspan is 17-18 mm. The forewings are rather dark violet-grey, slightly whitish-speckled with the dorsal area suffused blackish from near the base to near the tornus and with a fine rather uregular hardly curved whitish line from beyond three-fourths of the costa to the dorsum before the tornus, a minute whitish dash beyond this in the middle. The apical area is dark brown, with a round black spot resting on the costa near the apex, adjoinmg this beneath is a large white dot, a blackish pre-terminal dot beneath the apex with small adjacent white dots above and beneath and two other white dots beneath it, but these four white dots sometimes obsolete. The hindwings are dark fuscous.

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Compsolechia drachmaea Wikipedia


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