Chlamydastis caecata

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Chlamydastis caecata
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Depressariidae
Genus: Chlamydastis
Species:
C. caecata
Binomial name
Chlamydastis caecata
(Meyrick, 1916)
Synonyms
  • Agriophara caecataMeyrick, 1916

Chlamydastis caecata is a moth of the family Depressariidae. It is found in French Guiana. [1]

The wingspan is about 24 mm. The forewings are violet-fuscous with several small light dull greenish spots traversing the wing before the middle, one representing the plical stigma is larger. There is a dark violet-fuscous triangular apical patch, its edge running from beyond the middle of the costa to the tornus, slightly convex, marked towards the termen in the middle with a round blackish blotch resting on its anterior edge, suffused posteriorly but finely whitish-edged anteriorly. The hindwings are dark fuscous. [2]

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References

  1. ↑ Chlamydastis at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. ↑ Exotic Microlepidoptera 1 (16): 487 PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .