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Hygroplasta continctella

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Lecithoceridae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Hygroplasta

Hygroplasta continctella is a moth in the Lecithoceridae family. It was described by Walker in 1864. It is found in southern India.

Adults are cinereous-brown and stout, with the forewings are rather narrow, rounded at the tips, with two deep black dots in the disc, one before the middle, the other beyond the middle. The hindwings are cinereous.

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Hygroplasta continctella Wikipedia