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Sclerophantis

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Gelechiidae

Rank
  
Genus

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Species
  
S. cyanocorys

Sclerophantis is a genus of moth in the family Gelechiidae. It contains the species Sclerophantis cyanocorys, which is found in Indonesia (Java).

The wingspan is about 12 mm. The forewings are dark grey irrorated pale grey. The stigmata are obscurely indicated by blackish-grey suffusion, the plical obliquely before the first discal. There is a costal streak of blackish-grey suffusion from before the middle gradually expanding to the origin of the cilia, where it ends abruptly. The hindwings are dark fuscous.

References

Sclerophantis Wikipedia