Choreutis niphocrypta
| Choreutis niphocrypta | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Choreutidae |
| Genus: | Choreutis |
| Species: | C. niphocrypta |
| Binomial name | |
| Choreutis niphocrypta (Meyrick, 1930) | |
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Choreutis niphocrypta is a moth in the Choreutidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1930. It is found in New Guinea.[1]
The wingspan is about 14 mm. The forewings are deep red-brown, the basal area irrorated white and with a slightly excurved antemedian fascia of white irroration, narrowed and forming a small white spot on the costa. There is some white irroration about the end of the cell and a broader excurved fascia of white irroration from two-thirds of the costa to the dorsum before the tornus, forming two small white spots on the costa and limited anteriorly by a contorted-dentate undefined line, posteriorly confluent with a subterminal fascia of white irroration from a small white spot on the costa. The hindwings are snow-white with a blackish costal band occupying nearly one-third of the wing.[2]