''Choreutis plectodes'' is a species of

moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of ...

of the family Choreutidae. It is found in

South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring count ...

. The

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is about 11 mm. The forewings are fuscous suffusedly mixed with darker fuscous, and irregularly speckled with whitish and with an irregular straight transverse whitish line at a transverse whitish mark in the disc at two-thirds, as well as a whitish line from the costa beyond the middle, running obliquely outwards and curved around the discal mark, where it is interrupted and replaced with whitish speckling, then irregularly dentate to the dorsum beyond the middle but again interrupted with whitish speckling on the fold. A light fuscous line is found close beyond this on the upper half but similarly interrupted with whitish speckling beyond the discal mark, then irregularly dentate and somewhat mixed with whitish to the dorsum before the tornus. The hindwings are dark grey.Meyrick E. 1921b. Descriptions of South African Micro-Lepidoptera. - Annals of the Transvaal Museum 8(2):49–148: p. 111

References

Endemic moths of South Africa Moths described in 1921 Choreutis Moths of Africa {{choreutidae-stub