Commatica cryptina
Commatica cryptina is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Walsingham in 1911. It is found in Mexico (Tabasco).[1]
| Commatica cryptina | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gelechiidae |
| Genus: | Commatica |
| Species: | C. cryptina |
| Binomial name | |
| Commatica cryptina (Walsingham, 1911) | |
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The wingspan is 8–9 mm. The forewings are dark tawny brownish fuscous, slightly bestrewn with steely grey scales and with a slender pale steel-grey streak running obliquely outward from the commencement of the costal cilia to a little below the apex, where it is angulated and continued indistinctly to the tornus. The hindwings are dark bronzy brownish.[2]
References
- funet.fi
- Biol. centr.-amer. Lep. Heterocera 4 : 76
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