Plagiocrossa

Plagiocrossa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Suborder: Glossata
(unranked): Ditrysia
Superfamily: Gelechioidea
Family: Lecithoceridae
Genus: Plagiocrossa
Janse, 1954
Species: P. picrodora
Binomial name
Plagiocrossa picrodora
(Meyrick, 1913)
Synonyms
  • Lecithocera picrodora Meyrick, 1913

Plagiocrossa is a genus of moth in the family Lecithoceridae. It contains the species Plagiocrossa picrodora, which is found in South Africa.[1][2]

The wingspan is about 11 mm. The forewings are dark purplish-fuscous, with the costal edge whitish-ochreous from before the middle almost to the apex. There is a transverse whitish-ochreous bar in the disc at three-fifths. The hindwings are pale whitish-ochreous, towards the termen and dorsum tinged with grey.[3]

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