''Colonanthes'' is a genus of
moths in the family
Gelechiidae. It contains the species ''Colonanthes plectanopa'', which is found in
Brazil (
Amazonas) and
Peru.
The
wingspan is about 9 mm. The forewings are brownish suffused or irrorated (speckled) grey, with minute whitish speckling and two white strigulae from the costa near the base and at one-fifth converging to a median basal tuft. There is an oblique white strigulae from the costa at one-fifth, before the middle, and at three-fourths, preceded by suffused brown blotches, the first running to two large tufts somewhat obliquely placed in the disc. The discal stigmata are black finely ringed whitish, connected by a patch of brown suffusion, beneath first a grey subdorsal tuft, beneath and touching the second a large dark grey dorsal tuft edged anteriorly by an oblique white strigula. There is a suffused dark fuscous dash in the disc posteriorly and some minute blackish white-edged dots on the costa posteriorly and the termen. The hindwings are dark grey, lighter in the disc.
Exot. Microlep. 3 (1-2): 12
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References
Gelechiinae
Taxa named by Edward Meyrick
Moth genera
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