| Cryptolechia schistopa | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Depressariidae |
| Genus: | Cryptolechia |
| Species: | C. schistopa |
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| Cryptolechia schistopa (Meyrick, 1902) | |
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Cryptolechia schistopa is a moth of the family Depressariidae. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria.
The wingspan is 13–18 mm. The forewings are whitish, somewhat mixed with fuscous, coarsely and irregularly streaked with blackish-fuscous between veins and there is a blackish-fuscous median longitudinal streak from the base to the termen, as well as a stronger blackish-fuscous subdorsal streak to the base to the tornus. The hindwings are fuscous, lighter anteriorly.
References
- Australian Faunal Directory
- "Cryptolechia Zeller, 1852" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- Exotic Microlepidoptera 2 (7): 222
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