Cryptophasa themerodes: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Xyloryctidae
- Genus
- Cryptophasa
- Species
- Cryptophasa themerodes
- Scientific Name
- Cryptophasa themerodes
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Cryptophasa themerodes
Cryptophasa themerodes is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae. It was described by Alfred Jefferis Turner in 1904. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Queensland.
The wingspan is about 35 mm. The forewings are whitish, intimately mixed with grey, and with some dark fuscous scales. The discal dots are scantily represented by dark fuscous scales, the first at one-third, the second beyond the middle and the third on the fold obliquely beyond the first. There are several dark fuscous dots near the termen. The hindwings are whitish, towards the termen suffused with pale fuscous.
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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
