Pyncostola auturga is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1921. It is found in South Africa, where it has been recorded from KwaZulu-Natal, the Western Cape and Gauteng.[1][2]
| Pyncostola auturga | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gelechiidae |
| Genus: | Pyncostola |
| Species: | P. auturga
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| Binomial name | |
| Pyncostola auturga Meyrick, 1921
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The wingspan is 19–20 mm. The forewings are brown, with the veins marked with lines of irroration (sprinkles) of dark fuscous scales with ochreous-whitish bases, and a streak of similar irroration along the costa from the base to three-fourths. There are suffused dark-fuscous dots beneath the costa at one-sixth and one-third. The stigmata are blackish, the discal approximated, the plical very obliquely before the first discal, an additional dot on the fold nearer the plical than the base. The hindwings are grey.[3]
References
edit- ^ Savela, Markku, ed. (June 16, 2014). "Pyncostola auturga (Meyrick, 1921)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved September 10, 2020.
- ^ De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2019). "Pyncostola auturga Meyrick, 1921". Afromoths. Retrieved September 10, 2020.
- ^ Meyrick, E. (July 14, 1921). "Descriptions of South African Micro-Lepidoptera". Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 8 (2): 65 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
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