Comocritis nephelista
| Comocritis nephelista | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Xyloryctidae |
| Genus: | Comocritis |
| Species: | C. nephelista |
| Binomial name | |
| Comocritis nephelista (Meyrick, 1914) | |
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Comocritis nephelista is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1914. It is found in Sri Lanka.[1]
The wingspan is 16–20 mm (0.63–0.79 in). The forewings are white brownish irrorated (sprinkled) with dark fuscous, more strongly posteriorly. There is a suffused white streak along the costa from about one-third to near the apex and two small indistinct dark fuscous spots obliquely placed towards the costa at one-fourth. A suffused whitish streak encloses an elongate semi-oval patch of stronger dark irroration along the median third of the dorsum and there is some indistinct whitish admixture in the disc posteriorly, sometimes forming a suffused streak running to the termen above the tornus. There are also four small indistinct cloudy dark fuscous spots around the apex and termen. The hindwings are light grey.[2]
References
- ^ Savela, Markku (December 15, 2013). "Comocritis nephelista Meyrick, 1914". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 20, 2020.
- ^ Meyrick, E. (1906). "Descriptions of Indian Microlepidoptera, part XVIII". Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 23 (1): 129. Retrieved 16 June 2020 – via Internet Archive.
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