Hyodectis

Hyodectis is a genus of moth in the family Gelechiidae.[1] It contains only one species, Hyodectis crenoides, which is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from New South Wales and Victoria.[2]

Hyodectis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Gelechiidae
Subfamily:
Dichomeridinae
Genus:
Hyodectis

Meyrick, 1904
Species:
H. crenoides
Binomial name
Hyodectis crenoides
Meyrick, 1904

The wingspan is 14–17 mm (0.55–0.67 in). The forewings are rather light brown, sometimes golden-tinged and with a rather broad straight shining white streak above the middle from the base to the apex, suffusedly edged beneath with dark fuscous, especially posteriorly. There is sometimes a white dot at three-fourths touching its lower edge and is also sometimes an undefined fine whitish almost terminal line. The hindwings are whitish-fuscous or pale fuscous.[3]

References
  1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Hyodectis". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 25, 2018.
  2. Hyodectis at funet
  3. Meyrick, E. (1904). "Descriptions of Australian Micro-Lepidoptera". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 29 (part II [number 114]): 411. Retrieved 17 June 2020 – via Internet Archive.


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