Melitoxoides cophias
| Melitoxoides cophias | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gelechiidae |
| Genus: | Melitoxoides |
| Species: | M. cophias |
| Binomial name | |
| Melitoxoides cophias (Meyrick, 1913) | |
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Melitoxoides cophias is a moth in the Gelechiidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1913. It is found in South Africa.[1][2]
The wingspan is about 19 mm. The forewings are light fuscous sprinkled with darker fuscous and black and with the base of the dorsum pale, surmounted by a cloudy spot of fuscous suffusion. The stigmata are blackish, the discal approximated, the plical very obliquely before the first discal. There is some indistinct fuscous suffusion running from above the discal stigmata to the costa before the apex. The hindwings are grey, darker posteriorly.[3]
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