Eupoecilia cracens

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Eupoecilia cracens
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Tortricidae
Genus: Eupoecilia
Species:
E. cracens
Binomial name
Eupoecilia cracens
Diakonoff, 1982 [1]

Eupoecilia cracens is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae first described by Alexey Diakonoff in 1982. [2] It is found in Sri Lanka.

Description

The wingspan of the male is 13 mm. Head and thorax pale ochreous. Frons whitish. Palpus whitish ochreous. Antenna pale ochreous. Abdomen pale ochreous. Forewings oblong, and costa curved at base. Apex pointed. Forewings pale golden ochreous with, greyish suffusion in costa. Costal half triangularly dilated upwards, which is suffused grey. Cilia glossy whitish ochreous. Hindwings pale ochreous. Whitish towards cell. [3]

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References

  1. Tortricid.net
  2. "Species Details: Eupoecilia cracens Diakonoff, 1982". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 29 June 2018.
  3. Diakonoff, A. (1982). "On a Collection of Some Families of Micro-Lepidoptera from Sri Lanka (Ceylon)". Zoologische Verhandelingen. 193: 1–124 via Naturalis Biodiversity Center.