Melitoxoides cophias

Melitoxoides cophias
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Gelechiidae
Genus:	Melitoxoides
Species:	M. cophias
Binomial name
	Melitoxoides cophias; (Meyrick, 1913)
Synonyms
	Gelechia cophias Meyrick, 1913; Nothris cophias;

Melitoxoides cophias is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Meyrick in 1913. It is found in South Africa.[1][2]

The wingspan is about 19 mm. The forewings are light fuscous sprinkled with darker fuscous and black and with the base of the dorsum pale, surmounted by a cloudy spot of fuscous suffusion. The stigmata are blackish, the discal approximated, the plical very obliquely before the first discal. There is some indistinct fuscous suffusion running from above the discal stigmata to the costa before the apex. The hindwings are grey, darker posteriorly.[3]

References

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Afro Moths
Ann. Transv. Mus. 3 (4) : 292 Archived 2016-03-15 at the Wayback Machine

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[2] Afro Moths

[3] Ann. Transv. Mus. 3 (4) : 292 Archived 2016-03-15 at the Wayback Machine