Chlamydastis caecata
Chlamydastis caecata is a moth of the family Depressariidae. It is found in French Guiana.[1]
| Chlamydastis caecata | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Depressariidae |
| Genus: | Chlamydastis |
| Species: | C. caecata |
| Binomial name | |
| Chlamydastis caecata (Meyrick, 1916) | |
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The wingspan is about 24 mm. The forewings are violet-fuscous with several small light dull greenish spots traversing the wing before the middle, one representing the plical stigma is larger. There is a dark violet-fuscous triangular apical patch, its edge running from beyond the middle of the costa to the tornus, slightly convex, marked towards the termen in the middle with a round blackish blotch resting on its anterior edge, suffused posteriorly but finely whitish-edged anteriorly. The hindwings are dark fuscous.[2]
References
- Chlamydastis at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- Exotic Microlepidoptera 1 (16): 487
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