Pyncostola pachyacma
Pyncostola pachyacma | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Gelechiidae |
Genus: | Pyncostola |
Species: | P. pachyacma |
Binomial name | |
Pyncostola pachyacma Meyrick, 1926 | |
Pyncostola pachyacma is a moth of the Gelechiidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1926. It is found in South Africa, where it has been recorded from the Western Cape.[1][2]
The wingspan is about 20 mm. The forewings are white, irregularly irrorated dark grey with a ferruginous-ochreous spot at the base of the dorsum and an oblique bar of dark grey suffusion from the base of the costa to the fold, spotted with ferruginous-ochreous on the extremities. There is an oval spot of dark grey irroration suffused with ferruginous-ochreous towards the costa at one-third. The stigmata form dark grey spots suffused with larger ferruginous-ochreous spots, the plical obliquely before the first discal. The dorsal edge is shortly ferruginous-ochreous before the tornus and a streak of ferruginous-ochreous suffusion along the lower three-fifths of the termen. The hindwings are grey-whitish.[3]