Dacryphanes cyanastra

Dacryphanes cyanastra
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 cyanastra is a moth in the Eriocottidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1907. It is found in India.[1]

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.[2]

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