Choreutis niphocrypta
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Kingdom: | Animalia
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Phylum: | Arthropoda
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Class: | Insecta
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Species: | C. niphocrypta
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Choreutis niphocrypta (Meyrick, 1930)
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Choreutis niphocrypta is a moth in the family Choreutidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1930. It is found on New Guinea.[1]
The wingspan is about 14 mm. The forewings are deep red brown, the basal area irrorated (sprinkled) with white and with a slightly excurved antemedian fascia of white irroration, narrowed and forming a small white spot on the costa. There is some white irroration about the end of the cell and a broader excurved fascia of white irroration from two-thirds of the costa to the dorsum before the tornus, forming two small white spots on the costa and limited anteriorly by a contorted-dentate undefined line, posteriorly confluent with a subterminal fascia of white irroration from a small white spot on the costa. The hindwings are snow white with a blackish costal band occupying nearly one-third of the wing.[2]
References[]
- ^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Anthophila niphocrypta". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved April 29, 2018.
- ^ Exotic Microlepidoptera. 4: 6.
- Choreutis
- Moths described in 1930
- Choreutidae stubs