Chlamydastis leucoplasta is a moth of the family Depressariidae. It is found in Peru and Brazil.[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. leucoplasta
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| Binomial name | |
| Chlamydastis leucoplasta (Meyrick, 1926)
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The wingspan is about 13 mm. The forewings are dark fuscous with a broad white fusiform costal band, almost from the base to the apex. There are two or three indistinct whitish dots on the termen. The hindwings are grey, darker in females.[2]
References
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- ^ "Chlamydastis Meyrick, 1916" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ Exotic Microlepidoptera 3 (5-7): 232
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