Chlamydastis leucoplasta is a moth of the family Depressariidae. It is found in Peru and Brazil.[1]
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Depressariidae |
Genus: | Chlamydastis |
Species: | C. leucoplasta
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Binomial name | |
Chlamydastis leucoplasta (Meyrick, 1926)
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The wingspan is about 13 mm. The forewings are dark fuscous with a broad white fusiform costal band, almost from the base to the apex. There are two or three indistinct whitish dots on the termen. The hindwings are grey, darker in females.[2]
References
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- ^ "Chlamydastis Meyrick, 1916" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ Exotic Microlepidoptera 3 (5-7): 232 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.