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Cryptophasa aglaodes

Synonyms: Cryptophaga aglaodes

Wikipedia Abstract

Cryptophasa aglaodes is a moth in the Xyloryctidae family. It was described by Lower in 1894. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from the Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia and Victoria. The wingspan is about 50 mm for females and 38 mm for males. The forewings are pale whitish-ochreous, slightly infuscated. The costa is slenderly blackish towards the apex and there is a small well-defined black dot in the disc at one-third, and another similar obliquely beyond it, at about the middle. The hindwings are whitish-ochreous.
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Prey / Diet

Allocasuarina verticillata (drooping she-oak)[1]

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Attributes / relations provided by
1HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0