Crocanthes crypsichola

Crocanthes crypsichola
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lecithoceridae
Genus: Crocanthes
Species: C. crypsichola
Binomial name
Crocanthes crypsichola
Durrant, 1915

Crocanthes crypsichola is a moth in the Lecithoceridae family. It was described by Durrant in 1915. It is found in New Guinea.[1]

The wingspan is about 20 mm. The forewings are shining, purplish fuscous, with a narrow, outwardly oblique, pale primrose-yellow fascia crossing the wing from the middle of the costa almost to the dorsum, and with a small triangular costal spot of the same colour before the apex. The hindwings are fuscous.[2]

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