Cryptolechia orthotoma

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Cryptolechia orthotoma
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Depressariidae
Genus: Cryptolechia
Species:
C. orthotoma
Binomial name
Cryptolechia orthotoma
(Meyrick, 1905)
Synonyms
  • Phaeosaces orthotomaMeyrick, 1905

Cryptolechia orthotoma is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1905. [1] It is found in Sri Lanka. [2]

The wingspan is 14–17 mm for males and 15–21 mm for females. [3] The forewings are pale fuscous, with the costal edge narrowly whitish ochreous. The discal stigmata is dark fuscous, partially whitish edged. The second is large and connected with the apex of a triangular pretornal blotch of dark fuscous suffusion. Its anterior edge is vertical and margined with ochreous-whitish. There is also a terminal series of dark fuscous dots continued around the apex. The hindwings are light fuscous, but darker posteriorly. [4]

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References

  1. ↑ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Cryptolechia orthotoma". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index . Natural History Museum . Retrieved May 18, 2018.
  2. ↑ "Cryptolechia Zeller, 1852" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  3. ↑ Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 20 (1): 163
  4. ↑ Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 16 (4): 605 PD-icon.svgThis article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .


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