Cryptolechia pytinaea

Cryptolechia pytinaea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Depressariidae
Genus:	Cryptolechia
Species:	C. pytinaea
Binomial name
	Cryptolechia pytinaea; (Meyrick, 1902)
Synonyms
	Leptosaces pytinaea Meyrick, 1902;

Cryptolechia pytinaea is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1902.^[1] It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from New South Wales.^[2]

The wingspan is 18–19 mm. The termen of the forewings is fuscous between the veins and there is a thicker subcostal streak from the base to beneath the middle of the costa and one in the disc from one-fifth to two-thirds. There is a stronger blackish-fuscous subdorsal streak from the base to the tornus. The hindwings are ochreous-grey-whitish.^[3]

References

^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Pytinaea group pytinaea". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 18, 2018.
^ "Cryptolechia Zeller, 1852" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
^ Exotic Microlepidoptera 2 (7): 222

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[1] Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Pytinaea group pytinaea". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 18, 2018.

[2] "Cryptolechia Zeller, 1852" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

[3] Exotic Microlepidoptera 2 (7): 222

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