Dacryphanes cyanastra
Dacryphanes cyanastra | |
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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 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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