Dacryphanes | |
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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
- 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.
- Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 18: 154. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
Taxon identifiers | |
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Dacryphanes cyanastra |
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