Psorosticha melanocrepida

Psorosticha melanocrepida is a moth in the Oecophoridae family. It was described by Clarke in 1962.^[1] It is found in Japan (Kyusyu).^[2]

The wingspan is 16-18 mm. The forewings are clay colour, with the base, a spot at the mid-costa and an oblique bar from the costa slightly before the apex all blackish-fuscous. There is an ill-defined oblique, blackish-fuscous streak in the cell, at about the middle of the wing with a spot of raised scales at the outer end. There is a series of minute blackish-fuscous spots arranged in an outwardly curved arc at the basal third and a series of four or five small blackish-fuscous spots around the termen. The remainder of the forewings is marked with scattered blackish-fuscous scales. The hindwings are greyish, basally shading to fuscous at the margins.

The larvae feed on Citrus unshiu.^[3]

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