Mometa infricta

Mometa infricta
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Mometa
Species: M. infricta
Binomial name
Mometa infricta
(Meyrick, 1916)
Synonyms
  • Parapsectris infricta Meyrick, 1916

Mometa infricta is a moth of the Gelechiidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1916. It is found in Malawi.[1][2]

The wingspan is about 22 mm. The forewings are dark purplish-fuscous with white spots on the costa at one-sixth and on the dorsum opposite, with a few white scales between these. There is an irregular undefined slender slightly oblique white median fascia, sinuate outwards in the middle, obsolescent on the dorsum. There is a conspicuous irregular white spot on the costa beyond three-fourths and a smaller one on the tornus opposite, with a few white scales between these. There are also two or three white scales on the termen. The hindwings are grey, darker posteriorly.[3]

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