Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Gelechiidae Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Compsolechia | |
Compsolechia pungens is a moth of the Gelechiidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1922. It is found in Peru.
The wingspan is 16-18 mm. The forewings are fuscous, slightly speckled whitish with a very oblique thick streak of dark brown suffusion from the dorsum at one-fourth reaching more than half across the wing, limitmg a basal patch of ochieous-brown suffusion not reaching the costa and edged above by a small cloudy spot of dark fuscous suffusion at the base, and an indistinct slender very oblique streak from the costa near the base to its posterior extremity. A small obscurely darker spot is found in the middle of the disc and there is some brown suffusion along the median area of the costa, terminated by a suffused dark brown spot preceding the subterminal line. There is a fine whitish line from three-fourths of the costa to the dorsum before the tornus, angulated in the middle, the upper half incurved, the lower straight or slightly dentate beneath the angle, with a short dash projecting from the angle towards a short black pre-terminal dash. The apical area is light brownish, with a thick ochreous-brown marginal streak around the posterior part of the costa and termen, an oval black spot lying in this above the apex. The hindwings are dark grey.