Lachnostola

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| parent_authority = Meyrick, 1918

| taxon = Lachnostola amphizeucta

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Lachnostola is a monotypic moth genus in the family Gelechiidae. Its only species, Lachnostola amphizeucta, is found in South Africa. Both the genus and species were first described by Edward Meyrick in 1918.{{cite web |last=Savela |first=Markku |date=June 15, 2014 |url=https://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/gelechioidea/gelechiidae/gelechiinae/lachnostola/ |title=Lachnostola Meyrick, 1918 |website=Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms |accessdate=August 20, 2020}}{{cite web |last1=De Prins |first1=J. |last2=De Prins |first2=W. |name-list-style=amp |date=2019 |url=http://www.afromoths.net/species_by_code/LACHAMPH |title=Lachnostola amphizeucta Meyrick, 1918 |website=Afromoths |accessdate=August 20, 2020}}

The wingspan is 8–11 mm. The forewings are pale ochreous yellowish with a narrow dark fuscous streak along the costa from the base to two-fifths and there is a dark fuscous streak along the dorsum from near the base to three-fourths. There is a deep ochreous spot surrounded with blackish suffusion resting on this before the middle of the wing. A triangular dark grey blotch extends on the costa from the middle to three-fourths and reaching half across the wing. The discal stigmata are blackish, the second just below the apex of the costal blotch and there is more or less yellow-ochreous suffusion towards the tornal area, with scattered blackish scales. There is also an apical spot of blackish suffusion. The hindwings are grey.{{cite journal |last=Meyrick |first=E. |date=August 1918 |url=https://journals.co.za/content/nfi_annalstm/6/2/AJA00411752_795 |title=Descriptions of South African Micro-Lepidoptera |journal=Annals of the Transvaal Museum |volume=6 |issue=2 |pages=22–23 |via=Sabinet}} {{PD-notice}}