Cryptophasa hyalinopa
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Xyloryctidae |
| Genus: | Cryptophasa |
| Species: | C. hyalinopa
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| Cryptophasa hyalinopa (Lower, 1901)[1]
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Cryptophasa hyalinopa is a moth of the family Xyloryctidae. It is known from Queensland, Australia.
Description[edit]
The wingspan is about 30 mm for males and about 66 mm for females. Head, palpi, thorax, and legs fleshy-ochreous, head somewhat pinkish tinged, tarsi ringed with blackish. Antennae blackish, pectinations: 2. Abdomen blackish, second segment orange-red. Forewings elongate, moderate, costa, nearly straight, termen obliquely rounded; fleshy-ochreous, darker on basal third; a fine black dot in disc at one-third, a second at posterior extremity of cell, and a third obliquely below and before; two others on fold beyond middle; an obscure row of fine blackish dots along termen to anal angle, not reaching apex. Hindwings semi-hyaline (glassy), basal two-thirds black; cilia whitish becoming fuscous around anal angle. Underside of both wings with basal two-thirds densely black. The sexes of this species are very dissimilar in the hindwings, the male having the terminal half hyaline and the basal half black.[2]
Biology[edit]
The larvae feed on Eucalyptus platyphylla. They bore in the stem of their host plant. Adults are on wing in September and October.
References[edit]
- ^ Australian Faunal Directory
- ^ Xyloryctine Moths of Australia
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