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Crocogma

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Suborder
  
Glossata

Rank
  
Genus

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Infraorder
  
Heteroneura

Crocogma is a genus of moth in the family Lecithoceridae. It contains the species Crocogma isocola, which is found in India (Assam).

The wingspan is about 12 mm. The forewings are pale ochreous, more or less irrorated fuscous, the costa and upper part of the termen suffused rather dark fuscous. The stigmata are blackish, with the discal large, the plical smaller, rather obliquely before the first discal. The hindwings are whitish-ochreous, with a deep ochreous-yellow streak of modified scales along the submedian fold.

References

Crocogma Wikipedia