Cryptolechia perversa

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Cryptolechia perversa
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Depressariidae
Genus: Cryptolechia
Species:
C. perversa
Binomial name
Cryptolechia perversa
Meyrick, 1918

Cryptolechia perversa is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1918. [1] It is found in southern India. [2]

The wingspan is about 13 mm. The forewings are fuscous, irrorated with dark fuscous. The stigmata is cloudy, dark fuscous and edged with whitish posteriorly, the plical rather obliquely beyond the first discal and there are ochreous-whitish spots on the costa before the middle and at four-fifths. The hindwings are light grey. [3]

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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 perversa". 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. ↑ Exotic Microlepidoptera 2 (7): 222 PD-icon.svgThis article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
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