Commatica cryptina

Commatica cryptina is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Walsingham in 1911. It is found in Mexico (Tabasco).[1]

Commatica cryptina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Gelechiidae
Genus:
Commatica
Species:
C. cryptina
Binomial name
Commatica cryptina
(Walsingham, 1911)
Synonyms
  • Untomia cryptina Walsingham, 1911

The wingspan is 8–9 mm. The forewings are dark tawny brownish fuscous, slightly bestrewn with steely grey scales and with a slender pale steel-grey streak running obliquely outward from the commencement of the costal cilia to a little below the apex, where it is angulated and continued indistinctly to the tornus. The hindwings are dark bronzy brownish.[2]

References
  1. funet.fi
  2. Biol. centr.-amer. Lep. Heterocera 4 : 76


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