Cathegesis vinitincta

Cathegesis vinitincta is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Walsingham in 1910.[1] It is found in Mexico (Vera Cruz) and Guatemala.[2]

Cathegesis vinitincta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Gelechiidae
Genus:
Cathegesis
Species:
C. vinitincta
Binomial name
Cathegesis vinitincta
Walsingham, 1910

The wingspan is about 16 mm. The forewings are shining, tawny greyish fuscous, with a broad semicircular chocolate-brown dorsal patch reaching from near the base to near the middle, its upper third crossing the fold. There is an elongate chocolate-brown streak from the outer end of the cell nearly reaching the termen below the apex. The apex itself is rounded, but the form of the tawny brownish cilia above it gives the depressed costa a strongly angulate appearance before it. A pale cinereous line runs around the base of the tawny greyish terminal cilia. The hindwings are bronzy brown.[3]

References
  1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Cathegesis vinitincta". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 19, 2018.
  2. Cathegesis at funet
  3. Biol. centr.-amer. Lep. Heterocera 4 : 27

 This article incorporates text from Biologia Centrali-Americana :zoology, botany and archaeology, by Frederick Ducane Godman and Osbert Salvin (ed.), a publication from 1879-1915, now in the public domain in the United States.


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