Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Cosmopterix galapagosensis
Polilla cosmet de Galápagos, Galapagos cosmet moth
MALE (n=27) (figs 3, 13, 14). Head brown to orange brown on occiput, with three thin longitudinal white lines reaching posterior margin of head: one on each side from antenna along upper side of eye and one medially from about anterior margin of eye; with a few white scales before antenna; vertex and frons with large greyish-brown shining scales. Haustellum and maxillary palpus pale greyish beige. Labial palpus with six thin longitudinal stripes: three white and three brown on segment II, and two of the same colors on segment III. Antenna from apex with two dark-brown flagellomeres, two whit: "€ dark brown, one white, one dark brown, two mostly white with some dark-brown scales, two or three mostly dark brown with white scales, two or three with white first row and dark-brown second row, about 20 with complete dark-brown se. ond row and incomplete white first row, basal three and scape dark brown dorsally with two longitudinal white lines and a larger beige stripe ventrally (Landry, 2001).
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Lepidoptera
Superfamily
Gelechioidea
Family
Cosmopterigidae
Genus
Cosmopterix
Species
galapagosensis
Taxon category: Accepted
Origin: Endemic
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: Isabela, Santa Cruz y San Cristóbal (Landry, 2001; Roque, 2006).
- Landry, B. (2001) The Cosmopterigidae (Lepidoptera) of the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador. Rev. Suisse Zool. 108(3): 513-539.
- Landry, B. Roque-Albelo, L. (2008) Additions to the Cosmopterigidae (Lepidoptera) of the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, with description of a new species of Stilbosis Clemens. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 115(2): 303-309.
- Roque-Albelo, L. Landry, B. (2016) CDF Checklist of Galapagos Butterflies and Moths Charles Darwin Research Station, Puerto Ayora, Ecuador, 32 pp.
- Roque-Albelo, L. (2006) Diversity and ecology of the Lepidoptera in the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador Cardiff University (United Kingdom)
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"Galapagos Species Database, Cosmopterix galapagosensis", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=5744. Accessed 9 June 2026.