Cryptolechia callixyla

Cryptolechia callixyla
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Depressariidae
Genus:	Cryptolechia
Species:	C. callixyla
Binomial name
	Cryptolechia callixyla; (Meyrick, 1888)
Synonyms
	Leptosaces callixyla Meyrick, 1888;

Cryptolechia callixyla is a moth in the family Oecophoridae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1888.^[1] It is found in New Zealand.^[2]

The wingspan is 16–18 mm. The forewings are rather dark fuscous, strewn with yellow-ochreous scales, in female suffused with yellow-ochreous towards the inner margin. There is a longitudinal yellow-ochreous streak in disc from one-third to three-fourths, in females extended to the base. There is a cloudy dark fuscous dot on this streak at one-third, a second beyond the middle and a third on the fold obliquely beyond the first. There is a yellow-ochreous transverse line, in males ill-defined, from four-fifths of the costa to the anal angle, sharply angulated in the middle, indented beneath the costa. There is an irregular yellow-ochreous hindmarginal line. The hindwings are grey.^[3]

References[]

^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Cryptolechia callixyla". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 17, 2018.
^ "Cryptolechia Zeller, 1852" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
^ Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand 1868-1961; Volume 20, 1887 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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[1] Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Cryptolechia callixyla". 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] Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand 1868-1961; Volume 20, 1887 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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