Cryptophasa byssinopis: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Xyloryctidae
- Genus
- Cryptophasa
- Species
- Cryptophasa byssinopis
- Scientific Name
- Cryptophasa byssinopis
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Cryptophasa byssinopis
Cryptophasa byssinopis is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae. It was described by Alfred Jefferis Turner in 1902. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Queensland.
The wingspan is 42–45 mm. The forewings are snow white with three blackish discal dots, the first in the disc at one-third, the second in the disc beyond the middle, the third beneath and posterior to the second. There is a series of minute blackish dots on the hindmargin. The hindwings are white, with minute hindmarginal blackish dots which are sometimes obsolete.
...Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Cryptophasa acroleuca
- Cryptophasa albacosta
- Cryptophasa alphitodes
- Cryptophasa argyrias
- Cryptophasa argyrocolla
- Cryptophasa atecmarta
- Cryptophasa balteata
- Cryptophasa byssinopis
- Cryptophasa catharia
- Cryptophasa chionodes
- Cryptophasa citrinopa
- Cryptophasa delocentra
- Cryptophasa epadelpha
- Cryptophasa flavolineata
- Cryptophasa gypsomera
- Cryptophasa hyalinopa
- Cryptophasa insana
- Cryptophasa irrorata
- Cryptophasa lasiocosma
- Cryptophasa leucadelpha
- Cryptophasa nephrosema
- Cryptophasa nigricincta
- Cryptophasa nubila
- Cryptophasa ochroleuca
- Cryptophasa opalina
- Cryptophasa panleuca
- Cryptophasa phaeochtha
- Cryptophasa phycidoides
- Cryptophasa platypedimela
- Cryptophasa porphyritis
- Cryptophasa pultenae
- Cryptophasa rubescens
- Cryptophasa rubra
- Cryptophasa russata
- Cryptophasa sacerdos
- Cryptophasa sarcinota
- Cryptophasa spilonota
- Cryptophasa tecta
- Cryptophasa tetrazona
- Cryptophasa themerodes
- Cryptophasa xylomima
