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Cryptolechia laica

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Depressariidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Cryptolechia

Cryptolechia laica is a moth in the Depressariidae family. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1910. It is found on Borneo.

The wingspan is about 16 mm. The forewings are brownish ochreous, sprinkled with dark fuscous. The base of the costa is suffused with dark fuscous. The stigmata are dark fuscous, the first discal rather large, the plical rather obliquely beyond the first discal, an additional dot beneath the second discal. There is a series of dark fuscous dots along the posterior half of the costa and termen. The hindwings are fuscous.

References

Cryptolechia laica Wikipedia