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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