Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Depressariidae | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Rank Species | |
Genus Chariphylla
Meyrick, 1921 | ||
Chariphylla closterias is a moth in the Depressariidae family, and the only species in the genus Chariphylla. It was described by Meyrick in 1921 and is found in Peru.
The wingspan is 22 mm. The forewings brown slightly rosy-tinged, suffusedly sprinkled dark fuscous with the costal edge dark fuscous towards the base and with a narrow white costal streak from one-sixth to three-fourths and a white spot on the dorsum near the base, where a sinuate white subdorsal line, furcate anteriorly and connected with both ends of it, runs to the dorsum at two-thirds. There is a curved white line from above the fold at one-third of the wing to the dorsum at four-fifths, connected on the dorsum with the preceding, some white irroration between them posteriorly and with some scattered white scales towards the costa. The hindwings are light grey, sprinkled darker on the veins and terminally.