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Cryptolechia schistopa

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Cryptolechia schistopa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Depressariidae
Genus: Cryptolechia
Species:
C. schistopa
Binomial name
Cryptolechia schistopa
Synonyms
  • Leptosaces schistopa Meyrick, 1902

Cryptolechia schistopa is a moth of the family Depressariidae. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria.

The wingspan is 13–18 mm. The forewings are whitish, somewhat mixed with fuscous, coarsely and irregularly streaked with blackish-fuscous between veins and there is a blackish-fuscous median longitudinal streak from the base to the termen, as well as a stronger blackish-fuscous subdorsal streak to the base to the tornus. The hindwings are fuscous, lighter anteriorly.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Australian Faunal Directory
  2. ^ "Cryptolechia Zeller, 1852" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  3. ^ Exotic Microlepidoptera 2 (7): 222 Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.