Cryptophasa hormocrossa

Cryptophasa hormocrossa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Xyloryctidae
Genus:	Cryptophasa
Species:	C. hormocrossa
Binomial name
	Cryptophasa hormocrossa; Meyrick, 1925

Cryptophasa hormocrossa is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1925. It is found on New Guinea.[1]

The wingspan is 40–44 mm. The forewings are brown, irregularly sprinkled with dark fuscous and with an undefined quadrate patch of dark fuscous suffusion resting on the costa before the middle and sometimes a suffused dark fuscous streak along the dorsum from near the base to three-fourths. There is a small dark fuscous spot near the base in the middle, and two connected by a line on the angles of the cell. A band of whitish suffusion is found before the termen from the dorsum reaching three-fourths of the way across the wing, above this a blotch of dark fuscous suffusion towards the costa. The hindwings are fuscous.[2]

References

Savela, Markku, ed. (April 25, 2016). "Cryptophasa hormocrossa Meyrick, 1925". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 24, 2020.
Exotic Microlepidoptera. 3 (5-7): 148.

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[1] Savela, Markku, ed. (April 25, 2016). "Cryptophasa hormocrossa Meyrick, 1925". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 24, 2020.

[2] Exotic Microlepidoptera. 3 (5-7): 148.