Cryptolechia compsotypa
| Cryptolechia compsotypa | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Oecophoridae |
| Genus: | Cryptolechia |
| Species: | C. compsotypa |
| Binomial name | |
| Cryptolechia compsotypa (Meyrick, 1886) | |
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Cryptolechia compsotypa is a moth in the Oecophoridae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1886.[1] It is found in New Zealand.[2]
The wingspan is about 19 mm. The forewings are light greyish-fuscous, irregularly mixed with whitish and blackish scales and broadly suffused with whitish towards the costa anteriorly. There is a small black spot on the base of the costa and a cloudy dark fuscous spot on fold at one-fourth, connected with the inner margin by an inwardly oblique line. There is a blackish dot in the disc at two-fifths, connected with the costa at two-fifths by a dark fuscous line strongly dentate outwards in the middle, and a second dot on the fold directly beneath the first, connected with the inner margin by a cloudy irregular inwardly oblique dark fuscous line. There is also a thick cloudy dark fuscous outwardly oblique streak from the middle of the costa, reaching nearly half across wing. There is a posterior series of short longitudinal blackish streaks between the veins and an interrupted blackish hindmarginal line. The hindwings are whitish, with a broad suffused light-grey border along the hindmargin.[3]
The larvae have been recorded feeding on thin-shelled almond.[4]