Cryptolechia centroleuca

Cryptolechia centroleuca is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1922.[1] It is found in India (Sikkim).[2]

Cryptolechia centroleuca
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Depressariidae
Genus:
Cryptolechia
Species:
C. centroleuca
Binomial name
Cryptolechia centroleuca
Meyrick, 1922

The wingspan is about 18 mm. The forewings are whitish-ochreous with some scattered dark fuscous scales. The costa is yellowish-tinged, with some blackish specks and there is a narrow fuscous basal patch, suffusedly extended along the costa to one-fourth. The plical and first discal stigmata are small, black and the plical rather posterior, while the second discal is whitish, surrounded with a cloud of fuscous suffusion and darkest immediately around it. The veins beyond the cell are somewhat marked with fuscous and there is a blotch of fuscous suffusion on the costa towards the apex. There is also a terminal series of blackish dots. The hindwings are rather light grey.[3]

References
  1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Cryptolechia centroleuca". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 17, 2018.
  2. "Cryptolechia Zeller, 1852" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  3. Exotic Microlepidoptera 2 (17): 513


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