Cophomantella furnaria

Cophomantella furnaria
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lecithoceridae
Genus:	Cophomantella
Species:	C. furnaria
Binomial name
	Cophomantella furnaria; (Meyrick, 1913)
Synonyms
	Lecithocera furnaria Meyrick, 1913; Lecithocera jurnaria;

Cophomantella furnaria is a moth in the family Lecithoceridae. It was described by Meyrick in 1913. It is known from South Africa.[1][2]

The wingspan is 12–13 mm. The forewings are dark fuscous with a whitish-ochreous antemedian fascia, straight and sharply defined anteriorly, broadly suffused posteriorly, followed by a blackish-fuscous discal dot. The posterior area is lighter and somewhat sprinkled with whitish-ochreous, with a whitish-ochreous line running from the costa about three-fourths to the dorsum before the tornus, angulated inwards above the middle and outwards in the middle, well-defined anteriorly but more or less suffused posteriorly, forming a spot or patch on the costa. The hindwings are whitish-ochreous, more or less infuscated towards the apex.[3]

References

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Afro Moths
Ann. Transv. Mus. 3 (4) : 294 Archived March 15, 2016, at the Wayback Machine

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[2] Afro Moths

[3] Ann. Transv. Mus. 3 (4) : 294 Archived March 15, 2016, at the Wayback Machine