Dacryphanes

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

Dacryphanes is een monotypisch geslacht van vlinders uit de onderfamilie Eriocottinae van de familie Eriocottidae.

Soorten

• Dacryphanes cyanastra

Dacryphanes é um gênero de mariposa pertencente à família Acrolophidae.^[1]

Referências

Bibliografia

• Davis, Donald R. and Gaden S. Robinson, Chapter 7. The Tineoidea and Gracillarioidea in Kristensen, Neils P. ed. 1999. Lepidoptera, moths and butterflies. Part 35, Vol. 1 in Handbook of Zoology. Maximilian Fischer ed. Walter de Gryter, New York. 491 pp.
• Hasbrouck, Frank F. 1964. Moths of the family Acrolophidae in America north of Mexico (Microlepidoptera). Proc. U.S. Natl. Mus. 114: 487-706.
• Scoble, Malcom J. 1992. Chapter 11. Lower Ditrysia, pp. 225– 254 in The Lepidoptera: form, function, and diversity. Oxford Univ. press. 1982. 404 pp.