Cynicocrates

Cynicocrates
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Suborder: Glossata
(unranked): Ditrysia
Superfamily: Gelechioidea
Family: Lecithoceridae
Genus: Cynicocrates
Meyrick, 1935
Species: C. tachytoma
Binomial name
Cynicocrates tachytoma
Meyrick, 1935

Cynicocrates is a genus of moth in the family Lecithoceridae. It contains the species Cynicocrates tachytoma, which is found in Taiwan.[1]

The wingspan is about 11 mm. The forewings are whitish-grey with blackish-grey markings. There are cloudy spots on the costa at one-fourth, the middle, and two-thirds and two rather large cloudy spots representing the discal stigmata. There is also a strongly excurved series of cloudy spots from the costa at three-fourths very near the termen to the tornus. The hindwings are grey.[2]

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