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Excommatica

Wikipedia Abstract

Excommatica is a genus of moth in the family Gelechiidae. It contains the species Excommatica compsotoma, which is found in Mozambique and Zimbabwe. The wingspan is about 10 mm. The forewings are pale ochreous with an irregular blackish patch extending along the dorsum from near the base to near the tornus, widest before the middle of the wing, where it extends half across, the edge sinuate before and beyond this, narrow towards the posterior extremity, the apex truncate and followed by slight whitish suffusion. There is a broad blackish streak along the costa from before the middle to the apex, pointed anteriorly, cut by an oblique whitish strigula at two-thirds and a less oblique grey-whitish strigula at three-fourths, the lower edge between this and the apex semicircularly excavated. Th
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External References

Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0