Pyncostola pammacha

Pyncostola pammacha
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Gelechiidae
Genus:	Pyncostola
Species:	P. pammacha
Binomial name
	Pyncostola pammacha; (Meyrick, 1913)
Synonyms
	Paltodora pammacha Meyrick, 1913;

Pyncostola pammacha is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1913. It is found in South Africa, where it has been recorded from Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal, Gauteng and the Eastern Cape.[1][2]

The wingspan is 19–21 mm. The forewings are grey, more or less sprinkled or suffused with whitish. The costa is darker, towards the base suffused with blackish. There are two small black dots beneath the costa at one-fifth and one-third and a slender black streak from the base along the fold, terminated by the plical stigma, which is obliquely before the first discal. The discal stigmata are black, the first elongate, the second dot like, placed in a pale yellow-ochreous streak running from the first to a blackish streak which extends from the apex along the upper part of the termen. The hindwings are grey or dark grey.[3]

References

Savela, Markku, ed. (June 16, 2014). "Pyncostola pammacha (Meyrick, 1913)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved September 10, 2020.
De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2019). "Pyncostola pammacha (Meyrick, 1913)". Afromoths. Retrieved September 10, 2020.
Meyrick, E. (January 1913). "Descriptions of South African Micro-Lepidoptera: IV". Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 3 (4): 281 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.

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[1] Savela, Markku, ed. (June 16, 2014). "Pyncostola pammacha (Meyrick, 1913)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved September 10, 2020.

[2] De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2019). "Pyncostola pammacha (Meyrick, 1913)". Afromoths. Retrieved September 10, 2020.

[3] Meyrick, E. (January 1913). "Descriptions of South African Micro-Lepidoptera: IV". Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 3 (4): 281 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.