Brenthia gamicopis

Brenthia gamicopis is a species of moth of the family Choreutidae. It is found in Uganda.

Brenthia gamicopis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Choreutidae
Genus:
Brenthia
Species:
B. gamicopis
Binomial name
Brenthia gamicopis

The wingspan is about 11 mm. The forewings are rather dark fuscous, irregularly sprinkled white with a suffused white transverse streak at one-third, another only developed towards the extremities from three-fourths of the costa to two-fifths of the dorsum, and an irregular transverse spot from the dorsum between these. There is an oval whitish ring in the disc beyond the middle and a marginal series of eight black spots containing silver-metallic dots around the apical part of the costa and termen, slenderly separated with brownish-ochreous, the two subapical confluent. The hindwings are white with the basal fourth more or less mixed grey and with an irregular dark grey patch beneath the posterior half of the costa, separated by a metallic violet posteriorly black-edged mark from an ochreous-brownish streak running around the termen and elsewhere margined anteriorly dark grey.[2]

References
  1. "Afro Moths". Afro Moths. Retrieved 2011-12-19.
  2. Exotic Microlep. 4: 6


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