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Cryptolechia sciodeta

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Depressariidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Cryptolechia

Cryptolechia sciodeta is a moth in the Depressariidae family. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1930. It is found in Brazil.

The wingspan is about 16 mm. The forewings are yellow-whitish, becoming pale ochreous-yellow towards the termen and the costa narrowly grey to near the apex. The stigmata is grey, the plical obliquely beyond the first discal and there is a small spot of greyish suffusion on the dorsum at one-fourth, as well as an irregular streak of fuscous suffusion along the termen and two dots on the costa before the apex. The hindwings are whitish.

References

Cryptolechia sciodeta Wikipedia