Compsoctena aethalea

Compsoctena aethalea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Eriocottidae
Genus: Compsoctena
Species: C. aethalea
Binomial name
Compsoctena aethalea
(Meyrick, 1907)
Synonyms
  • Melasina aethalea Meyrick, 1908

Compsoctena aethalea is a moth in the Eriocottidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1907. It is found in India.[1]

The wingspan is 30-34 mm for males and about 46 mm for females. The forewings of the males are dark fuscous, finely irrorated with whitish. In females, they are paler, strewn with blackish-fuscous strigulae. There is a dark fuscous transverse fascia-like blotch from the middle of the dorsum, reaching about half across the wing and a similar blotch from the middle of the costa directed towards the tornus, reaching more than half across the wing. The costa is more or less spotted alternately with pale ochreous-yellowish and dark fuscous posteriorly and there are two or three dark fuscous subterminal spots sometimes united into an incomplete fascia. The hindwings are blackish-fuscous.[2]

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