Choreutis niphocrypta

Choreutis niphocrypta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Choreutidae
Genus:	Choreutis
Species:	C. niphocrypta
Binomial name
	Choreutis niphocrypta; (Meyrick, 1930)
Synonyms
	Simaethis niphocrypta Meyrick, 1930; Anthophila niphocrypta;

Choreutis niphocrypta is a moth in the family Choreutidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1930. It is found on New Guinea.[1]

The wingspan is about 14 mm. The forewings are deep red brown, the basal area irrorated (sprinkled) with white and with a slightly excurved antemedian fascia of white irroration, narrowed and forming a small white spot on the costa. There is some white irroration about the end of the cell and a broader excurved fascia of white irroration from two-thirds of the costa to the dorsum before the tornus, forming two small white spots on the costa and limited anteriorly by a contorted-dentate undefined line, posteriorly confluent with a subterminal fascia of white irroration from a small white spot on the costa. The hindwings are snow white with a blackish costal band occupying nearly one-third of the wing.[2]

References

Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Anthophila niphocrypta". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved April 29, 2018.
Exotic Microlepidoptera. 4: 6.

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[1] Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Anthophila niphocrypta". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved April 29, 2018.

[2] Exotic Microlepidoptera. 4: 6.