Cathegesis vinitincta is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Thomas de Grey in 1910.[1] It is found in Mexico (Vera Cruz) and Guatemala.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gelechiidae |
| Genus: | Cathegesis |
| Species: | C. vinitincta
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| Binomial name | |
| Cathegesis vinitincta Walsingham, 1910
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The wingspan is about 16 mm. The forewings are shining, tawny greyish fuscous, with a broad semicircular chocolate-brown dorsal patch reaching from near the base to near the middle, its upper third crossing the fold. There is an elongate chocolate-brown streak from the outer end of the cell nearly reaching the termen below the apex. The apex itself is rounded, but the form of the tawny brownish cilia above it gives the depressed costa a strongly angulate appearance before it. A pale cinereous line runs around the base of the tawny greyish terminal cilia. The hindwings are bronzy brown.[3]
References
edit- ^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Cathegesis vinitincta". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 19, 2018.
- ^ Cathegesis at funet
- ^ Biol. centr.-amer. Lep. Heterocera 4 : 27
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
This article incorporates text from Biologia Centrali-Americana :zoology, botany and archaeology, by Frederick Ducane Godman and Osbert Salvin (ed.), a publication from 1879-1915, now in the public domain in the United States.