Cryptolechia Sperans
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''Cryptolechia sperans'' is a
moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of ...
in the family
Depressariidae Depressariidae is a family of moths. It has formerly been treated as a subfamily of Gelechiidae, but is now recognised as a separate family, comprising about 2,300 species worldwide.Heikkilä, M. ''et al''. 2014: Morphology reinforces proposed mo ...
. It was described by
Edward Meyrick Edward Meyrick (25 November 1854, in Ramsbury – 31 March 1938, at Thornhanger, Marlborough) was an English schoolmaster and amateur entomologist. He was an expert on microlepidoptera and some consider him one of the founders of modern m ...
in 1926. It is found on
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. The
wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–200 has a wingspan of , and a wandering albatross (''Diomedea exulans'') caught in 1965 had a wingspan ...
is about 17 mm. The forewings are purplish-grey irrorated with dark fuscous. The stigmata is indistinct, dark-fuscous and accompanied by one or two whitish scales. There is also a small ochreous-whitish flattened-triangular spot on the costa at about three-fourths. The hindwings are dark grey.''The Sarawak Museum Journal'' 3: 159
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Moths described in 1926 Cryptolechia (moth) Taxa named by Edward Meyrick {{Cryptolechiinae-stub