Cryptolechia schistopa

Cryptolechia schistopa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Depressariidae
Genus:	Cryptolechia
Species:	C. schistopa
Binomial name
	Cryptolechia schistopa; (Meyrick, 1902)[1][2]
Synonyms
	Leptosaces schistopa Meyrick, 1902;

Cryptolechia schistopa is a moth of the family Depressariidae. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria.

The wingspan is 13–18 mm. The forewings are whitish, somewhat mixed with fuscous, coarsely and irregularly streaked with blackish-fuscous between veins and there is a blackish-fuscous median longitudinal streak from the base to the termen, as well as a stronger blackish-fuscous subdorsal streak to the base to the tornus. The hindwings are fuscous, lighter anteriorly.[3]

References

Australian Faunal Directory
"Cryptolechia Zeller, 1852" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
Exotic Microlepidoptera 2 (7): 222

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[1] Australian Faunal Directory

[2] "Cryptolechia Zeller, 1852" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

[3] Exotic Microlepidoptera 2 (7): 222