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Compsolechia suffectella

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Gelechiidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Compsolechia

Compsolechia suffectella is a moth of the Gelechiidae family. It was described by Walker in 1864. It is found in Mexico, Panama, Colombia and Brazil (Amazonas, Espiritu Santo).

The wingspan is 9–10 mm. The forewings are bright orange, with a short basal patch, a costal triangle, before the middle, reaching to the fold, and a large apical patch, all of these dark tawny fuscous, margined, except on the costa, by broken smaller patches of bright, shining steel-blue. A conspicuous patch of the same shining steel-blue, edged with dark fuscous, lies in the centre of the triangular orange area, between the dark costal and apical patches. The hindwings are brownish fuscous.

References

Compsolechia suffectella Wikipedia