Cryptolechia schistopa

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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Depressariidae
Tribe: HIBA
Genus: Cryptolechia
Species: C. schistopa
Binomial name
Cryptolechia schistopa
(Meyrick, 1902)[1][2]
Synonyms
  • Leptosaces schistopa Meyrick, 1902

Cryptolechia schistopa is a moth of the Depressariidae family. 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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