Chlamydastis xylinaspis is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1915. It is found in Peru.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Depressariidae |
| Genus: | Chlamydastis |
| Species: | C. xylinaspis
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| Binomial name | |
| Chlamydastis xylinaspis (Meyrick, 1915)
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The wingspan is about 16 mm. The forewings are ochreous-grey, suffused with whitish on the costal half of the median third and a black dot beneath the middle of the wing. There is an inwardly oblique raised black bar on the end of the cell, partially edged with brown. There is also a large rounded rufous-brown apical blotch suffusedly streaked with black, its edge running from the costal prominence to below the middle of the termen. The hindwings are dark grey.[2]
References
edit- ^ Chlamydastis at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms.
- ^ Exotic Microlepidoptera 1 (13): 407
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