Compsoctena expers

Compsoctena expers
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Eriocottidae
Genus: Compsoctena
Species:
C. expers
Binomial name
Compsoctena expers
(Meyrick, 1911)
Synonyms
  • Melasina expers Meyrick, 1911

Compsoctena expers is a moth in the family Eriocottidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1911.[1] It is found in Namibia and Zimbabwe.[2]

The wingspan is about 23 mm. The forewings are fuscous irregularly irrorated (sprinkled) with whitish, and strigulated with dark fuscous irroration. There is an elongate mark of darker suffusion beneath the middle of the disc, terminated at each end with whitish, but no other defined markings. The hindwings are fuscous.[3]

References

  1. ^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "​Compsoctena expers​". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 20, 2018.
  2. ^ De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2019). "Compsoctena expers (Meyrick, 1911)". Afromoths. Retrieved August 21, 2020.
  3. ^ Meyrick, E. (April 1911). "Descriptions of South African Micro-Lepidoptera". Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 3 (1): 82 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.


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