Cophomantella furnaria

Cophomantella furnaria
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lecithoceridae
Genus: Cophomantella
Species: C. furnaria
Binomial name
Cophomantella furnaria
(Meyrick, 1913)
Synonyms
  • Lecithocera furnaria Meyrick, 1913
  • Lecithocera jurnaria

Cophomantella furnaria is a moth in the Lecithoceridae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1913. It is known from South Africa.[1][2]

The wingspan is 12-13 mm. The forewings are dark fuscous with a whitish-ochreous antemedian fascia, straight and sharply defined anteriorly, broadly suffused posteriorly, followed by a blackish-fuscous discal dot. The posterior area is lighter and somewhat sprinkled with whitish-ochreous, with a whitish-ochreous line running from the costa about three-fourths to the dorsum before the tornus, angulated inwards above the middle and outwards in the middle, well-defined anteriorly but more or less suffused posteriorly, forming a spot or patch on the costa. The hindwings are whitish-ochreous, more or less infuscated towards the apex.[3]

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