Crocanthes crypsichola

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Crocanthes crypsichola
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lecithoceridae
Genus: Crocanthes
Species:
C. crypsichola
Binomial name
Crocanthes crypsichola
Durrant, 1915

Crocanthes crypsichola is a moth in the family Lecithoceridae. It was described by John Hartley Durrant in 1915. It is found on New Guinea. [1]

The wingspan is about 20 mm (0.79 in). The forewings are shining, purplish fuscous, with a narrow, outwardly oblique, pale primrose-yellow fascia crossing the wing from the middle of the costa almost to the dorsum, and with a small triangular costal spot of the same colour before the apex. The hindwings are fuscous. [2]

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References

  1. Savela, Markku, ed. (August 4, 2016). "Crocanthes crypsichola Durrant, 1915". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved January 12, 2021.
  2. Lepidoptera of the British Ornithologists' Union and Wollaston Expeditions in the Snow Mountains, Southern Dutch New Guinea: 165 PD-icon.svgThis article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .