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Procometis sphendonistis

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Autostichidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Procometis

Procometis sphendonistis is a moth in the family Autostichidae. It was described by Meyrick in 1908. It is found in Sri Lanka.

The wingspan is about 14 mm. The forewings are light greyish-ochreous suffusedly irrorated with fuscous and with a blackish basal dot in the middle, and one on the base of the costa. The stigmata are rather large, black, the plical slightly beyond the first discal. There is a row of blackish dots along the posterior part of the costa and termen to before the tornus. The hindwings are grey.

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Procometis sphendonistis Wikipedia