Biology:Dacryphanes
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Short description: Genus of moths
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| Genus: | Dacryphanes Meyrick, 1907
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| Species: | D. cyanastra
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| Dacryphanes cyanastra Meyrick, 1907
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Dacryphanes is a monotypic moth genus in the family Eriocottidae. Its only species, Dacryphanes cyanastra, is found in India . Both the genus and species were first described by Edward Meyrick in 1907.[1]
The moth is 15–18 mm. The forewings are dark fuscous with six indeterminate groups of blue-metallic or violet-metallic dots, sometimes surrounded by an indefinite cloudy paler suffusion. The hindwings are rather dark bronzy fuscous, darker towards apex.[2]
References
- ↑ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I. et al., eds (2003). "Dacryphanes". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/lepindex/detail/?taxonno=130362.
- ↑ Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 18: 154.
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