Compsoctena scriba

Compsoctena scriba is a moth in the Eriocottidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1921.^[1] It is found in Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.^[2]

The wingspan is about 27 mm. The forewings are grey irregularly sprinkled with whitish, transversely strigulated with dark fuscous irroration and with a transverse strigula of blackish scales towards the dorsum at one-fourth. There is a somewhat oblique blackish strigula in the disc before the middle, and a longer more strongly reversed-oblique blackish striga at the end of the cell. The V-shaped grey space beneath the middle of the disc is also somewhat marked with black on the upper part of the sides. The hindwings are rather dark grey.^[3]

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