Compsolechia pungens

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

Compsolechia pungens
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Gelechiidae
Genus:	Compsolechia
Species:	C. pungens
Binomial name
Compsolechia pungens Meyrick, 1922

The wingspan is 16–18 mm. The forewings are fuscous, slightly speckled with whitish with a very oblique thick streak of dark brown suffusion from the dorsum at one-fourth reaching more than half way across the wing, limiting a basal patch of ochieous-brown suffusion not reaching the costa and edged above by a small cloudy spot of dark fuscous suffusion at the base, and an indistinct slender very oblique streak from the costa near the base to its posterior extremity. A small obscurely darker spot is found in the middle of the disc and there is some brown suffusion along the median area of the costa, terminated by a suffused dark brown spot preceding the subterminal line. There is a fine whitish line from three-fourths of the costa to the dorsum before the tornus, angulated in the middle, the upper half incurved, the lower straight or slightly dentate beneath the angle, with a short dash projecting from the angle towards a short black pre-terminal dash. The apical area is light brownish, with a thick ochreous-brown marginal streak around the posterior part of the costa and termen, an oval black spot lying in this above the apex. The hindwings are dark grey.[2]

References

1. Savela, Markku (October 30, 2018). "Compsolechia pungens Meyrick, 1922". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 23, 2020.
2. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. 1922: 95.