Compsolechia erebodelta explained

Compsolechia erebodelta is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1922. It is found in Peru.[1]

The wingspan is about 17 mm. The forewings are brownish, slightly speckled with whitish and with a blackish dot on the base of the costa and a rather irregular thick blackish transverse streak from the dorsum at one-fifth reaching two-thirds of the way across the wing. The costa is suffused with dark brown from the middle to three-fourths. There is a fine indistinct ochreous-whitish line from three-fourths of the costa to the dorsum before the tornus, angulated in the middle, both halves incurved. A subtriangular black spot is found on the costa before the apex and there are two small black dots before the upper part of the termen, connected with the subterminal line by very fine ochreous-whitish dashes. The hindwings are dark grey.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Savela . Markku . October 30, 2018 . Compsolechia erebodelta Meyrick, 1922 . Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms . August 23, 2020.
  2. https://archive.org/stream/transactionsofen1922roya#page/96/mode/1up Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. 1922: 96.