Cryptolechia pytinaea is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1902.[1] It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from New South Wales.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Depressariidae |
| Genus: | Cryptolechia |
| Species: | C. pytinaea
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| Binomial name | |
| Cryptolechia pytinaea (Meyrick, 1902)
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The wingspan is 18–19 mm. The termen of the forewings is fuscous between the veins and there is a thicker subcostal streak from the base to beneath the middle of the costa and one in the disc from one-fifth to two-thirds. There is a stronger blackish-fuscous subdorsal streak from the base to the tornus. The hindwings are ochreous-grey-whitish.[3]
References
edit- ^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Pytinaea group pytinaea". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 18, 2018.
- ^ "Cryptolechia Zeller, 1852" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ Exotic Microlepidoptera 2 (7): 222
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