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Compsolechia mesodelta

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Gelechiidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Compsolechia

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

The wingspan is 10-11 mm. The forewings are grey with a faint greenish tinge, sometimes whitish-sprinkled. There is a triangular blackish blotch on the middle of the costa reaching half across the wing and a faint pale somewhat irregular line from four-fifths of the costa to the tornus, the costal and terminal area beyond this suffused blackish, in the whitish-sprinkled example a terminal line of whitish irroration. The hindwings are dark fuscous.

References

Compsolechia mesodelta Wikipedia