Cryptolechia picrocentra
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Depressariidae
Genus: Cryptolechia
Species:
C. picrocentra
Binomial name
Cryptolechia picrocentra
Meyrick, 1921

Cryptolechia picrocentra is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1921.[1] It is found in India (Assam).[2]

The wingspan is 16–17 mm. The forewings are pale ochreous irregularly sprinkled with fuscous. The stigmata is dark fuscous, the plical rather obliquely beyond the first discal and the second discal is large. There is some fuscous suffusion extending from the second discal to the apex, darker posteriorly. There are also minute dark fuscous terminal dots. The hindwings are grey.[3]

References

  1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Cryptolechia picrocentra". 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 (13): 395 Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
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