Pyncostola invida

Pyncostola invida is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1911. It is found in South Africa, where it has been recorded from the Eastern Cape.[1][2]

Pyncostola invida
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Gelechiidae
Genus:
Pyncostola
Species:
P. invida
Binomial name
Pyncostola invida
(Meyrick, 1911)
Synonyms
  • Paltodora invida Meyrick, 1911

The wingspan is about 26 mm. The forewings are dark fuscous, slightly whitish sprinkled, streaked with ochreous brown between the veins in the disc. There is a slender black streak along the sub-median fold from near the base to the middle of the wing, edged above by a whitish streak. There is a slender black streak in the disc from the middle to near three-fourths, as well as a streak of blackish suffusion along the upper part of the termen to the apex. The hindwings are rather dark grey.[3]

References
  1. Savela, Markku, ed. (June 16, 2014). "Pyncostola invida (Meyrick, 1911)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved September 10, 2020.
  2. De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2019). "Pyncostola invida (Meyrick, 1911)". Afromoths. Retrieved September 10, 2020.
  3. Meyrick, E. (April 1911). "Descriptions of South African Micro-Lepidoptera". Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 3 (1): 64 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.


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