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Crocanthes crypsichola

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Lecithoceridae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Crocanthes

Crocanthes crypsichola is a moth in the Lecithoceridae family. It was described by Durrant in 1915. It is found in New Guinea.

The wingspan is about 20 mm. 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.

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Crocanthes crypsichola Wikipedia