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