Compsoctena expers

Compsoctena expers
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Eriocottidae
Genus: Compsoctena
Species: C. expers
Binomial name
Compsoctena expers
(Meyrick, 1911)
Synonyms
  • Melasina expers Meyrick, 1911

Compsoctena expers is a moth in the Eriocottidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1911.[1] It is found in Namibia and Zimbabwe.[2]

The wingspan is about 23 mm. The forewings are fuscous irregularly irrorated with whitish, and strigulated with dark fuscous irroration. There is an elongate mark of darker suffusion beneath the middle of the disc, terminated at each end with whitish, but no other defined markings. The hindwings are fuscous.[3]

References

  1. ↑ LepIndex
  2. ↑ Afro Moths
  3. ↑ Meyrick, E. 1911c. Descriptions of South African Micro-Lepidoptera. - Annals of the Transvaal Museum 3(1); p. 82
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