Pyncostola magnanima

Description

Pyncostola magnanima is a moth of the Gelechiidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1912. It is found in South Africa, where it has been recorded from Orange Free State. The wingspan is 27–28 mm. The forewings are pale brownish-ochreous mixed with whitish and more or less irrorated with dark fuscous, the veins sometimes partially streaked with whitish. There are cloudy dark fuscous dots beneath the costa near the base and at one-sixth and two cloudy dark fuscous dots on the fold obliquely beyond these, connected by a fine dark fuscous streak with the plical stigma, this streak edged above with white. The stigmata are dark fuscous, the plical much before the first discal, the first discal elongate, the second dot-like. The hindwings are grey.