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Cryptolechia picrocentra

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Depressariidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Cryptolechia

Cryptolechia picrocentra is a moth in the Depressariidae family. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1921. It is found in India (Assam).

The wingspan is 16–17 mm. The forewings are pale ochreous irregularly sprinkled with fuscous. The stigmata is dark fuscous, the plical rather obliquely beyond the first discal and the second discal is large. There is some fuscous suffusion extending from the second discal to the apex, darker posteriorly. There are also minute dark fuscous terminal dots. The hindwings are grey.

References

Cryptolechia picrocentra Wikipedia