Agathactis

Agathactis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Agathactis
Meyrick, 1929
Species: A. toxocosma
Binomial name
Agathactis toxocosma
Meyrick, 1929

Agathactis is a genus of moth in the family Gelechiidae. It contains the species Agathactis toxocosma, which is found in Guyana.[1]

The wingspan is 8-9 mm. The forewings are pale ochreous, sometimes tinged grey with a short oblique blackish mark from the base of the costa and a blackish dash on the costa before the middle, sometimes shaded grey beneath. There is a series of three blackish dashes along the fold more or less developed and a black dash more or less suffused grey in the disc beyond the middle, followed by another black dash whose apex meets a short inward projection from the centre of oblique blackish-grey lines from the costa and dorsum meeting in a curve, these lines are edged whitish anteriorly and preceded on the costa by a grey patch. The costa beyond this is dark grey, with two inwards-oblique whitish marks before the apex. There is also a round black apical dot. The hindwings are grey, subhyaline in the disc anteriorly.[2]

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