Catanomistis

Catanomistis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Xyloryctidae
Subfamily: Xyloryctinae
Genus: Catanomistis
Meyrick, 1933
Species: C. loxophracta
Binomial name
Catanomistis loxophracta
Meyrick, 1933

Catanomistis is a genus of moths of the Xyloryctidae family. It contains only one species, Catanomistis loxophracta, which is found in Madagascar.[1]

The wingspan is about 14 mm. The forewings are white with the discal stigmata black and with a fine oblique dark grey strigula from the middle of the costa, near beyond it a flattened-triangular dark grey spot, from which an irregular rather oblique streak crosses the second discal stigma and runs to the tornus, a dorsal streak of light grey suffusion from near the base nearly reaches this. The hindwings are light grey, thinly sprinkled dark grey.[2]

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