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Dacryphanes

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Dacryphanes
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Dacryphanes

Meyrick, 1907
Species:
D. cyanastra
Binomial name
Dacryphanes cyanastra
Meyrick, 1907

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]

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  1. ^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "​Dacryphanes​". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 1, 2018.
  2. ^ Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 18: 154. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.