Ancylometis scaeocosma

Ancylometis scaeocosma
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Gelechioidea
Family: Oecophoridae (disputed)
Subfamily: Oecophorinae
Genus: Ancylometis
Species: A. scaeocosma
Binomial name
Ancylometis scaeocosma
Meyrick, 1887[1]

Ancylometis scaeocosma is a species of moth in the family Oecophoridae. It is known from La Réunion.

This species has a wingspan of 11mm for the male. Head and palpi are dark fuscous, antennae greyish-ochreous, thorax and abdomen greyish-ochreous, irrorated with dark fuscous. forewings are elongated and rather narrow with a gently arched costa; they are whithish-ochreous, irrorated with dark fuscous, tinged with yellowish round dark markings, and a small dark fuscous basal patch. The hindwings are grey, paler and semi-transparent towards their base.[2]

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