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Chlamydastis metacystis

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Chlamydastis metacystis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Depressariidae
Genus: Chlamydastis
Species:
C. metacystis
Binomial name
Chlamydastis metacystis
(Meyrick, 1918)
Synonyms
  • Ptilogenes metacystis Meyrick, 1918

Chlamydastis metacystis is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1918. It is found in French Guiana.[1]

The wingspan is 14–17 mm. The forewings are whitish, more or less speckled fuscous. The stigmata are small, raised and black, the plical obliquely beyond the first discal and there are indistinct small grey spots on the costa at one-fourth and before the middle, and on the dorsum beyond the middle. An oval brown blotch, anteriorly suffused dark brown and sprinkled black, extending over the termen from above the apex to near the tornus. The hindwings of the males are ochreous-whitish, posteriorly tinged grey. The hindwings of the females are grey.[2]

References

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  1. ^ "Chlamydastis Meyrick, 1916" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms.
  2. ^ Exotic Microlepidoptera 2 (7): 211 Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.