Catanomistis

Catanomistis is a genus of moths of the family Xyloryctidae. 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 fine 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]

See also[]

• List of moths of Madagascar

References[]

• Meyrick, 1933a. Exotic Microlepidoptera 4. - — 4(12–14):353–448.
• Viette, 1955. Etude des types de Microlépidoptères (Tineidae s.l.) malgaches de Meyrick du Muséum de Vienne. - Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 60:279–286.