Crocanthes crypsichola
Crocanthes crypsichola is a moth in the family Lecithoceridae. It was described by John Hartley Durrant in 1915. It is found on New Guinea.[1]
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The wingspan is about 20 mm (0.79 in). The forewings are shining, purplish fuscous, with a narrow, outwardly oblique, pale primrose-yellow fascia crossing the wing from the middle of the costa almost to the dorsum, and with a small triangular costal spot of the same colour before the apex. The hindwings are fuscous.[2]
References
- Savela, Markku, ed. (August 4, 2016). "Crocanthes crypsichola Durrant, 1915". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved January 12, 2021.
- Lepidoptera of the British Ornithologists' Union and Wollaston Expeditions in the Snow Mountains, Southern Dutch New Guinea: 165
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