Commatica pterygota

Commatica pterygota
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Gelechiidae
Genus:	Commatica
Species:	C. pterygota
Binomial name
	Commatica pterygota; Meyrick, 1929

Commatica pterygota is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1929. It is found in Amazonas, Brazil.[1]

The wingspan is about 10 mm. The forewings are white with an oblique-triangular dark fuscous blotch from the base of the dorsum reaching half across the wing and a large more oblique-triangular dark fuscous blotch from the dorsum before the middle reaching more than half way across the wing. There is an anteriorly finely attenuated blackish costal streak from the middle to four-fifths, including an extremely oblique white strigula from the costa, and connected by brownish suffusion with a short black apical streak. There is a spot of dark brownish suffusion on the tornus, and two or three fine dashes of dark fuscous irroration (speckles) towards the termen above this. The hindwings are grey, with the apex white.[2]

References

Savela, Markku (February 12, 2015). "Commatica pterygota Meyrick, 1929". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 20, 2020.
Exotic Microlepidoptera. 3 (16): 503.

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[1] Savela, Markku (February 12, 2015). "Commatica pterygota Meyrick, 1929". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 20, 2020.

[2] Exotic Microlepidoptera. 3 (16): 503.