Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Cosmopterix bacata is a moth of the Cosmopterigidae family. It is found from northern Florida to southwest Alabama south to central Florida and Louisiana. Adults have been collected from late April and mid-July. Male, female. Forewing length 3.9-5.0 mm. Head: frons shining bronze with greenish and reddish reflections, vertex and neck tufts shining dark brown with reddish gloss, laterally and medially lined white, collar shining dark brown; labial palpus first segment very short, shining ochreous, second segment about three-quarters of the length of third, dorsally shining pale grey