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Genus of moths

Dacryphanes
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Eriocottidae
Genus: Dacryphanes
Meyrick, 1907
Species: D. cyanastra
Binomial name
Dacryphanes cyanastra
Meyrick, 1907

Dacryphanes is a monotypic moth genus in the family Eriocottidae. Its only species, Dacryphanes cyanastra, is found in India. Both the genus and species were first described by Edward Meyrick in 1907.

The moth is 15–18 mm. The forewings are dark fuscous with six indeterminate groups of blue-metallic or violet-metallic dots, sometimes surrounded by an indefinite cloudy paler suffusion. The hindwings are rather dark bronzy fuscous, darker towards apex.

References

  1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "​Dacryphanes​". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 1, 2018.
  2. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 18: 154. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
Taxon identifiers
Dacryphanes cyanastra


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