Cathegesis angulifera

Cathegesis angulifera is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Walsingham in 1897.[1] It is found on the West Indies.[2]

Cathegesis angulifera
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Gelechiidae
Genus:	Cathegesis
Species:	C. angulifera
Binomial name
Cathegesis angulifera (Walsingham, 1897)
Synonyms
Acompsia angulifera Walsingham, 1897

The wingspan is about 9 mm. The forewings are hoary greyish, with slight greyish-fuscous speckled shading. There is a small elongate blackish spot at the base of the costa and a blackish transverse spot on the fold at one-fourth from the base, followed by a smaller length-spot in the fold. There is also an outwardly oblique greyish fuscous shade at the middle of the costa, mixed with some chestnut scales, terminating in a slender curved line on the outer end of the cell. Before the apex is a slender hoary whitish transverse fascia, slightly angulated outwards on the middle and preceded by a greyish-fuscous shade mixed with some chestnut. The pale fascia is connected at each extremity with an internally dark margined pale line which passes around the base of the cilia, interrupted only at the extreme apex and forming a triangular pattern. A reduplicated slender fuscous and chestnut line runs through the hoary cilia along the termen. The hindwings are leaden grey.[3]

References

1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Acompsia angulifera". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 19, 2018.
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3. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1897 : 82