Cryptolechia phoebas

Cryptolechia phoebas is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1907.[1] It is found in India (Assam) and Bhutan.[2]

Cryptolechia phoebas
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Depressariidae
Genus:
Cryptolechia
Species:
C. phoebas
Binomial name
Cryptolechia phoebas
(Meyrick, 1907)
Synonyms
  • Eulechria phoebas Meyrick, 1907
  • Leptosaces phoebas

The wingspan is 15–16 mm. The forewings are deep ochreous-yellow, posteriorly slightly brownish-tinged, the base of the costa narrowly dark fuscous. The stigmata is black, the plical obliquely beyond the first discal. There is a small additional black dot beneath the second discal. The hindwings are grey.[3]

References
  1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Cryptolechia phoebas". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 18, 2018.
  2. "Cryptolechia Zeller, 1852" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  3. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 17 (3): 742


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