Dacryphanes
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| Genus: | Dacryphanes Meyrick, 1907
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| Species: | D. cyanastra
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| Dacryphanes cyanastra Meyrick, 1907
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Dacryphanes cyanastra is a moth in the Eriocottidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1907. It is found in India.[1]
The moth is 15–18 mm. The forewings are dark fuscous with six indeterminate groups of blue-metallic or violet-metallic dots, sometimes surrounded by an indefinite cloudy paler suffusion. The hindwings are rather dark bronzy-fuscous, darker towards apex.[2]
References
- ^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Dacryphanes". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 1, 2018.
- ^ J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 18; p. 154