''Cryptophasa'' is a genus of

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Xyloryctidae Xyloryctidae is a family of moths contained within the superfamily Gelechioidea described by Edward Meyrick in 1890. Most genera are found in the Indo-Australian region. While many of these moths are tiny, some members of the family grow to a w ...

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Cryptophasa aethoptera ''Cryptophasa aethoptera'' is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1938. It is found on New Guinea. References Cryptophasa Moths described in 1938 {{Xyloryctidae-stub ...

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Cryptophasa aglaodes ''Cryptophasa aglaodes'' is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae. It was described by Oswald Bertram Lower in 1894. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from the Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia and Victoria. The wi ...

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Cryptophasa albacosta ''Cryptophasa albacosta'', the small fruit tree borer, is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae. It was described by John Lewin in 1805. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania ...

'' Lewin, 1805 * ''

Cryptophasa alphitodes ''Cryptophasa alphitodes'' is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae. It was described by Turner in 1904. It is found in Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the m ...

'' Turner, 1904 * ''

Cryptophasa amphicroca ''Cryptophasa amphicroca'' is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1925. It is found on New Guinea. The wingspan is about 41 mm. The forewings are glossy white with an orange-ochreous costal line, slender ...

'' Meyrick, 1925 * ''

Cryptophasa antalba ''Cryptophasa antalba'' is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae. It was described by Alexey Diakonoff in 1966. It is found in New Guinea New Guinea (; Hiri Motu Hiri Motu, also known as Police Motu, Pidgin Motu, or just Hiri, is a langua ...

'' Diakonoff, 1966 * '' Cryptophasa argophanta'' Meyrick, 1917 * ''

Cryptophasa argyrias ''Cryptophasa argyrias'' is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae. It was described by Turner in 1906. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Queensland. The wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is ...

'' Turner, 1906 * '' Cryptophasa argyrocolla'' Turner, 1917 * ''

Cryptophasa arithmologa ''Cryptophasa arithmologa'' is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1938. It is found on New Guinea. References Cryptophasa Moths described in 1938 Taxa named by Edward Meyrick {{Xyloryctidae-s ...

'' Meyrick, 1938 * ''

Cryptophasa atecmarta ''Cryptophasa atecmarta'' is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae. It was described by Turner in 1917. It is found in Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the ma ...

'' Turner, 1917 * ''

Cryptophasa balteata ''Cryptophasa balteata'' is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae. It was described by Francis Walker in 1866. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from New South Wales, Queensland and South Australia. The wingspan is 32–34 m ...

'' (Walker, 1866) * '' Cryptophasa blosyra'' Turner, 1917 * ''

Cryptophasa byssinopis ''Cryptophasa byssinopis'' is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae. It was described by Turner in 1902. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Queensland. The wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is ...

'' Turner, 1902 * ''

Cryptophasa cannea ''Cryptophasa cannea'' is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae. It was described by Thomas Pennington Lucas in 1901. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Queensland. The wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an ...

'' (Lucas, 1901) * '' Cryptophasa catharia'' Turner, 1917 * '' Cryptophasa chionacra'' Diakonoff, 1954 * ''

Cryptophasa chionodes ''Cryptophasa chionodes'' is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae. It was described by Turner in 1898. It is found in Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the ma ...

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Cryptophasa chionosema ''Cryptophasa chionosema'' is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1938. It is found on New Guinea New Guinea (; Hiri Motu Hiri Motu, also known as Police Motu, Pidgin Motu, or just Hiri, is a langu ...

'' Meyrick, 1938 * ''

Cryptophasa chionotarsa ''Cryptophasa chionotarsa'' is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1925. It is found on New Guinea. The wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to ...

'' Meyrick, 1925 * ''

Cryptophasa chlorotis ''Cryptophasa chlorotis'' is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae. It was described by Alexey Diakonoff in 1954. It is found in New Guinea New Guinea (; Hiri Motu Hiri Motu, also known as Police Motu, Pidgin Motu, or just Hiri, is a lang ...

'' Diakonoff, 1954 * ''

Cryptophasa citrinopa ''Cryptophasa citrinopa'' is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae. It was described by Oswald Bertram Lower in 1915. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from New South Wales and Queensland. The wingspan The wingspan (or just s ...

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Cryptophasa crocochorda ''Cryptophasa crocochorda'' is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1925. It is found on New Guinea. The wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to ...

'' Meyrick, 1925 * ''

Cryptophasa crossosticta ''Cryptophasa crossosticta'' is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1938. It is found on New Guinea New Guinea (; Hiri Motu Hiri Motu, also known as Police Motu, Pidgin Motu, or just Hiri, is a lan ...

'' Meyrick, 1938 * ''

Cryptophasa curialis ''Cryptophasa curialis'' is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1925. It is found on New Guinea. The wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the ...

'' Meyrick, 1925 * ''

Cryptophasa delocentra ''Cryptophasa delocentra'' is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1890. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from New South Wales and Queensland. The wingspan is about 40 mm for females ...

'' (Meyrick, 1890) * ''

Cryptophasa diplosema ''Cryptophasa diplosema'' is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae. It was described by Oswald Bertram Lower in 1903. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Queensland. The wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an ...

'' (Lower, 1903) * ''

Cryptophasa ensigera ''Cryptophasa ensigera'' is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1925. It is found on New Guinea. The wingspan is 36–38 mm. The forewings are pale ochreous, somewhat mixed irregularly with light red ...

'' Meyrick, 1925 * ''

Cryptophasa epadelpha ''Cryptophasa epadelpha'' is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1890. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from New South Wales and Queensland. The wingspan The wingspan (or just span) o ...

'' (Meyrick, 1890) * '' Cryptophasa epixysta'' Turner, 1917 * '' Cryptophasa eumorpha'' (Turner, 1898) * '' Cryptophasa flavolineata'' (Walker, 1864) * ''

Cryptophasa geron ''Cryptophasa geron'' is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae. It was described by Alexey Diakonoff in 1954. It is found in New Guinea.Cryptophasa gypsomera'' (Lower, 1903) * '' Cryptophasa hades'' Diakonoff, 1954 * '' Cryptophasa hormocrossa'' Meyrick, 1925 * ''

Cryptophasa hyalinopa ''Cryptophasa hyalinopa'' is a moth of the family Xyloryctidae. It is known from Queensland, Australia. Description The wingspan is about 30 mm for males and about 66 mm for females. Head, palpi, thorax, and legs fleshy-ochreous, head ...

'' (Lower, 1901) * ''

Cryptophasa immaculata ''Cryptophasa immaculata'' is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae. It was described by Scott in 1864. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded in New South Wales. Adults are glossy silvery-white. The larvae feed on ''Banksia integrifo ...

'' Scott, 1864 * ''

Cryptophasa insana ''Cryptophasa insana'' is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae. It was described by Felder & Rogenhofer in 1875. It is found in Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country compris ...

'' (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875) * '' Cryptophasa iorhypara'' Diakonoff, 1954 * ''

Cryptophasa irrorata ''Cryptophasa irrorata'' is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae. It was described by John Lewin in 1805. It is found in Papua New Guinea and Australia, where it has been recorded from the Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland an ...

'' Lewin, 1805 * '' Cryptophasa isoneura'' (Lower, 1902) * '' Cryptophasa lasiocosma'' (Lower, 1908) * '' Cryptophasa leucadelpha'' Meyrick, 1887 * ''

Cryptophasa luciflua ''Cryptophasa luciflua'' is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1938. It is found on New Guinea New Guinea (; Hiri Motu: ''Niu Gini''; id, Papua, or , historically ) is the world's second-largest isl ...

'' Meyrick, 1938 * '' Cryptophasa malevolens'' Meyrick, 1928 * '' Cryptophasa megalorma'' Meyrick, 1910 * '' Cryptophasa melanoscia'' (Lower, 1903) * ''

Cryptophasa merocentra ''Cryptophasa merocentra'' is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1925. It is found on Buru in the Maluku Islands. The wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from o ...

'' Meyrick, 1925 * '' Cryptophasa mesotoma'' Meyrick, 1925 * ''

Cryptophasa molaris ''Cryptophasa molaris'' is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae. It was described by Thomas Pennington Lucas in 1900. It is found in Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country co ...

'' (Lucas, 1900) * '' Cryptophasa neocrates'' Meyrick, 1925 * ''

Cryptophasa nephrosema ''Cryptophasa nephrosema'' is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae. It was described by Alfred Jefferis Turner in 1898. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Queensland and the Northern Territory. The wingspan is about 35 ...

'' (Turner, 1898) * ''

Cryptophasa nesograpta ''Cryptophasa nesograpta'' is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1925. It is found on New Guinea. The wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to th ...

'' Meyrick, 1925 * '' Cryptophasa nigricincta'' (Turner, 1898) * ''

Cryptophasa niphadobela ''Cryptophasa niphadobela'' is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae. It was described by Alexey Diakonoff in 1954. It is found in New Guinea New Guinea (; Hiri Motu: ''Niu Gini''; id, Papua, or , historically ) is the world's second-large ...

'' Diakonoff, 1954 * ''

Cryptophasa nubila ''Cryptophasa nubila'' is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae. It was described by Thomas Pennington Lucas in 1894. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from New South Wales and Queensland. The wingspan is 30–42 mm. The for ...

'' (Lucas, 1894) * ''

Cryptophasa nymphidias ''Cryptophasa nymphidias'' is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae Xyloryctidae is a family of moths contained within the superfamily Gelechioidea described by Edward Meyrick in 1890. Most genera are found in the Indo-Australian region. While ma ...

'' Turner, 1926 * ''

Cryptophasa obscura ''Cryptophasa obscura'' is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae. It was described by Alexey Diakonoff in 1954. It is found in New Guinea.Cryptophasa ochroleuca ''Cryptophasa ochroleuca'' is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae. It was described by Oswald Bertram Lower in 1892. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from the Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, South Australia and ...

'' (Lower, 1892) * '' Cryptophasa oecodoma'' Meyrick, 1930 * ''

Cryptophasa opalina ''Cryptophasa opalina'' is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae. It was described by Alfred Jefferis Turner in 1900. It is found in Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country com ...

'' (Turner, 1900) * '' Cryptophasa panleuca'' (Lower, 1901) * ''

Cryptophasa phaeochtha ''Cryptophasa phaeochtha'' is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1925. It is found on New Guinea. The wingspan is 40–50 mm. The forewings are whitish ochreous with a suffused fuscous band occupyin ...

'' Meyrick, 1925 * '' Cryptophasa phaethontia'' (Meyrick, 1890) * '' Cryptophasa phycidoides'' (Lucas, 1901) * '' Cryptophasa platypedimela'' (Lower, 1894) * '' Cryptophasa porphyritis'' Turner, 1906 * ''

Cryptophasa psammochtha ''Cryptophasa psammochtha'' is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1925. It is found on New Guinea. The wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to t ...

'' Meyrick, 1925 * '' Cryptophasa psathyra'' (Diakonoff, 1948) * ''

Cryptophasa pseudogramma ''Cryptophasa pseudogramma'' is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1930. It is found on New Guinea. References

Cryptophasa Moths described in 1930 {{Xyloryctidae-stub ...

'' Meyrick, 1930 * '' Cryptophasa psilocrossa'' Turner, 1902 * ''

Cryptophasa psiloderma ''Cryptophasa psiloderma'' is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae. It was described by Alexey Diakonoff in 1948. It is found in New Guinea.Cryptophasa pultenae ''Cryptophasa pultenae'' is a moth of the family Xyloryctidae. It is known in Australia from New South Wales and Queensland. Description The wingspan is about 25 mm for males and about 40 mm for females. The wings are silvery-white, t ...

'' Lewin, 1805 * '' Cryptophasa ranunculus'' Diakonoff, 1954 * '' Cryptophasa rubescens'' Lewin, 1805 * ''

Cryptophasa rubra ''Cryptophasa rubra'' is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1890. It is found in Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising t ...

'' (Meyrick, 1890) * ''

Cryptophasa russata ''Cryptophasa russata'' is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae. It was described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1877. It is found in New Guinea and Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sove ...

'' Butler, 1877 * '' Cryptophasa sacerdos'' Turner, 1902 * ''

Cryptophasa sarcinota ''Cryptophasa sarcinota'' is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1890. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Queensland. The wingspan is about 35–53 mm. (about 1.15-1.75 ft) The fore ...

'' (Meyrick, 1890) * '' Cryptophasa semnocrana'' Meyrick, 1928 * ''

Cryptophasa sepiogramma ''Cryptophasa sepiogramma'' is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1938. It is found on New Guinea. References

Cryptophasa Moths described in 1938 {{Xyloryctidae-stub ...

'' Meyrick, 1938 * ''

Cryptophasa spilonota ''Cryptophasa spilonota'' is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae. It was described by Scott in 1864. It is found in Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mai ...

'' Scott, 1864 * '' Cryptophasa stenoleuca'' (Lower, 1894) * ''

Cryptophasa stochastis ''Cryptophasa stochastis'' is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1890. It is found in Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country compris ...

'' (Meyrick, 1890) * ''

Cryptophasa tecta ''Cryptophasa tecta'' is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae. It was described by Thomas Pennington Lucas in 1894. It is found in Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comp ...

'' (Lucas, 1894) * ''

Cryptophasa tetrazona ''Cryptophasa tetrazona'' is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae. It was described by Oswald Bertram Lower in 1901. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria and Western Australia. The wingspan ...

'' (Lower, 1901) * '' Cryptophasa themerodes'' Turner, 1904 * ''

Cryptophasa vacuefacta ''Cryptophasa vacuefacta'' is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1925. It is found on New Guinea. The wingspan is about 46 mm. The forewings are a light brown-yellow color, and the hindwings are whi ...

'' Meyrick, 1925 * ''

Cryptophasa watungi ''Cryptophasa'' is a genus of moths of the family Xyloryctidae. Species * ''Cryptophasa aethoptera'' Meyrick, 1938 * ''Cryptophasa aglaodes'' (Lower, 1893) * ''Cryptophasa albacosta'' Lewin, 1805 * ''Cryptophasa alphitodes'' Turner, 1904 * ''C ...

'' Sutrisno & Suwito, 2015 * '' Cryptophasa xylomima'' Turner, 1906 * ''

Cryptophasa zorodes ''Cryptophasa zorodes'' is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae. It was described by Turner in 1917. It is found in Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the main ...

'' Turner, 1917

Former species

* '' Cryptophasa bipunctata'' Scott, 1864 * ''

Cryptophasa monoleuca ''Tirathaba monoleuca'' is a species of moth in the family Pyralidae The Pyralidae, commonly called pyralid moths, snout moths or grass moths, are a family of Lepidoptera in the ditrysian superfamily Pyraloidea. In many (particularly older ...

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Tirathaba monoleuca ''Tirathaba monoleuca'' is a species of moth in the family Pyralidae. It was described by Oswald Bertram Lower in 1894. It is found in Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign cou ...

'') * '' Cryptophasa sceliphrodes'' Meyrick, 1925 * '' Cryptophasa transversella'' Snellen, 1878

References

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