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Cosmopterix abdita
Cosmopterix teligera is a moth of the family Cosmopterigidae. It is known from the United States (Florida, south to Key Largo, and from Louisiana to north-western Arkansas), Brazil (Federal District), Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Jamaica and Mexico (Tamaulipas).
Adults have been recorded from March to October in the United States. In Jamaica, adults have been found in January and February. There are probably overlapping generations in the tropics.
From the article Cosmopterix teligera on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
Male, female. Forewing length 3.3-4.8 mm. Head: frons shining ochreous-white with greenish and reddish reflections, vertex shining dark bronze brown with reddish gloss, neck tufts dark brown with reddish gloss, laterally and medially lined white, collar shining dark brown with reddish gloss; labial palpus first segment very short, white, second segment four-fifths of the length of third, greyish brown with white longitudinal lines laterally and ventrally, third segment white, lined brown laterally; scape dorsally dark brown with a white anterior line, ventrally white, antenna shining dark brown, with a short white line at base changing into an interrupted line to beyond one-half, followed towards apex by six dark brown, two or three white, two dark brown, two white, ten dark brown and eight white segments at apex. Thorax and tegulae shining dark brown with reddish gloss, thorax with a white median line, tegulae lined white inwardly. …
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 217642.