Compsoctena scriba
| Compsoctena scriba | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Eriocottidae |
| Genus: | Compsoctena |
| Species: | C. scriba |
| Binomial name | |
| Compsoctena scriba (Meyrick, 1921) | |
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Compsoctena scriba is a moth in the Eriocottidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1921.[1] It is found in Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.[2]
The wingspan is about 27 mm. The forewings are grey irregularly sprinkled with whitish, transversely strigulated with dark fuscous irroration and with a transverse strigula of blackish scales towards the dorsum at one-fourth. There is a somewhat oblique blackish strigula in the disc before the middle, and a longer more strongly reversed-oblique blackish striga at the end of the cell. The V-shaped grey space beneath the middle of the disc is also somewhat marked with black on the upper part of the sides. The hindwings are rather dark grey.[3]
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