Copticostola
| Copticostola | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gelechiidae |
| Genus: | Copticostola Meyrick, 1929 |
| Species: | C. acuminata |
| Binomial name | |
| Copticostola acuminata (Walsingham, 1911) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Copticostola is a genus of moth in the family Gelechiidae. It contains the species Copticostola acuminata, which is found in Tabasco, Mexico.[1]
The wingspan is about 13 mm. The forewings are ivory-white, with three diffused fuscous dorsal patches, the first short at the flexus, the second before the middle, obliquely triangular, its apex crossing the fold, a third small and indistinct close to the tornus. Along the costa is a slender blackish streak at the base, and a narrow outwardly dilated dark brown costal shade beyond the middle, through which runs a very oblique white line to a conspicuous black spot at the apex. Beneath this spot the cilia are ivory-white, with a small transverse black streak descending through them from the apex and nearly joining a streak of brown scales projecting below it from a slender terminal line of the same. The hindwings and cilia are pale brownish grey, with a whitish spot at the produced apex.[2]