Promenesta chrysampyx

Promenesta chrysampyx
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Depressariidae
Genus: Promenesta
Species: P. chrysampyx
Binomial name
Promenesta chrysampyx
Meyrick, 1915

Promenesta chrysampyx is a moth in the Depressariidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1915. It is found in Guyana, Brazil (Amazonas) and Peru.[1]

The wingspan is about 12 mm. The forewings are dark fuscous, with a faint purplish tinge and a slender deep ochreous-yellow streak along the costa throughout, continued around the termen to the tornus, with its edge slightly waved. The hindwings are dark fuscous.[2]

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