Commatica lupata

Commatica lupata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Commatica
Species: C. lupata
Binomial name
Commatica lupata
Meyrick, 1914

Commatica lupata is a moth in the Gelechiidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1914. It is found in Guyana and Peru.[1]

The wingspan is 8-10 mm. The forewings are pale ochreous, brownish-tinged posteriorly, suffused with ochreous-whitish towards the costa anteriorly. The costal edge is black towards the base and there is a dark fuscous dot or oblique mark beneath the fold before one-fourth. The plical and first discal stigmata are blackish, the plical very obliquely before the first discal, both sometimes merged in a very oblique dark fuscous mark. A thick black streak is found along the costa from before the middle to the apex, attenuated anteriorly, cut by a very oblique fine white strigula from three-fourths. There is sometimes some fuscous suffusion along the fold posteriorly and a fine black dash is found in the disc about four-fifths, sometimes anteriorly extended and rather curved downwards. There is a stronger black dash above the tornus, sometimes connected with the tornus by fuscous suffusion and there is also a dentate whitish line just before the termen, the terminal interstices speckled with blackish. The hindwings are dark fuscous.[2]

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