Colonanthes

Colonanthes
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Colonanthes
Meyrick, 1923
Species: C. plectanopa
Binomial name
Colonanthes plectanopa
Meyrick, 1923

Colonanthes is a genus of moth in the family Gelechiidae. It contains the species Colonanthes plectanopa, which is found in Brazil (Amazonas) and Peru.[1]

The wingspan is about 9 mm. The forewings are brownish suffused or irrorated (speckled) grey, with minute whitish speckling and two white strigulae from the costa near the base and at one-fifth converging to a median basal tuft. There is an oblique white strigulae from the costa at one-fifth, before the middle, and at three-fourths, preceded by suffused brown blotches, the first running to two large tufts somewhat obliquely placed in the disc. The discal stigmata are black finely ringed whitish, connected by a patch of brown suffusion, beneath first a grey subdorsal tuft, beneath and touching the second a large dark grey dorsal tuft edged anteriorly by an oblique white strigula. There is a suffused dark fuscous dash in the disc posteriorly and some minute blackish white-edged dots on the costa posteriorly and the termen. The hindwings are dark grey, lighter in the disc.[2]

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