Enscepastra lathraea
Encyclopedia
Enscepastra lathraea is a species of moth
of the Coleophoridae
family. It is known from South Africa
.
The wingspan
is 8-9 mm. The head and thorax are pale glossy grey. The palpi are whitish,
dark fuscous on the basal half and beneath throughout. The abdomen is light grey. The forewings are lanceolate, light glossy grey with a broad suffused glossy white costal streak. The hindwings are very pale bluish-grey.
Moth
A moth is an insect closely related to the butterfly, both being of the order Lepidoptera. Moths form the majority of this order; there are thought to be 150,000 to 250,000 different species of moth , with thousands of species yet to be described...
of the Coleophoridae
Coleophoridae
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family. It is known from South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
.
The wingspan
Wingspan
The wingspan of an airplane or a bird, is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777 has a wingspan of about ; and a Wandering Albatross caught in 1965 had a wingspan of , the official record for a living bird.The term wingspan, more technically extent, is...
is 8-9 mm. The head and thorax are pale glossy grey. The palpi are whitish,
dark fuscous on the basal half and beneath throughout. The abdomen is light grey. The forewings are lanceolate, light glossy grey with a broad suffused glossy white costal streak. The hindwings are very pale bluish-grey.