''Scrobipalpa pendens'' is a

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 ...

in the family

Gelechiidae The Gelechiidae are a family of moths commonly referred to as twirler moths or gelechiid moths. They are the namesake family of the huge and little-studied superfamily Gelechioidea, and the family's taxonomy has been subject to considerable d ...

. It was described by

Edward Meyrick Edward Meyrick (25 November 1854, in Ramsbury – 31 March 1938, at Thornhanger, Marlborough) was an English schoolmaster and amateur entomologist. He was an expert on microlepidoptera and some consider him one of the founders of modern m ...

in 1918. 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

wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–200 has a wingspan of , and a wandering albatross (''Diomedea exulans'') caught in 1965 had a wingspan ...

is about . The forewings are reddish ochreous, paler towards the base, with a few scattered black scales and a blackish dot towards the base above the middle, one in the middle beyond this, and one still further on beneath the fold. There is an irregular oblique grey streak sprinkled with black from the costa at one-fourth to below the middle, interrupted beneath the costa, angulated and continued upwards to the costa at three-fourths, and a similar streak from the middle of the costa crossing this and also below the middle angulated upwards to touch it again just beyond the second discal stigma. The stigmata are rather large and black, the plical somewhat before the first discal, these placed on the margins of the angle of the first streak, the second discal on the posterior arm of the first streak. There is some grey sprinkling along the upper half of the termen. The hindwings are light slaty grey.

References

Endemic moths of South Africa Scrobipalpa Moths described in 1918 {{Scrobipalpa-stub