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Crocanthes crypsichola

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Crocanthes crypsichola
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
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]

References

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  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 Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.