Cryptolechia callixyla

Cryptolechia callixyla is a moth in the family Oecophoridae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1888.[1] It is found in New Zealand.[2]

Cryptolechia callixyla
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Oecophoridae
Genus:	Cryptolechia
Species:	C. callixyla
Binomial name
Cryptolechia callixyla (Meyrick, 1888)
Synonyms
Leptosaces callixyla Meyrick, 1888

The wingspan is 16–18 mm. The forewings are rather dark fuscous, strewn with yellow-ochreous scales, in female suffused with yellow-ochreous towards the inner margin. There is a longitudinal yellow-ochreous streak in disc from one-third to three-fourths, in females extended to the base. There is a cloudy dark fuscous dot on this streak at one-third, a second beyond the middle and a third on the fold obliquely beyond the first. There is a yellow-ochreous transverse line, in males ill-defined, from four-fifths of the costa to the anal angle, sharply angulated in the middle, indented beneath the costa. There is an irregular yellow-ochreous hindmarginal line. The hindwings are grey.[3]

References

1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Cryptolechia callixyla". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 17, 2018.
2. "Cryptolechia Zeller, 1852" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
3. Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand 1868-1961; Volume 20, 1887