Crocogma is a genus of moth in the family Lecithoceridae. It contains the species Crocogma isocola, which is found in India (Assam).[1]

Crocogma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lecithoceridae
Subfamily: Lecithocerinae
Genus: Crocogma
Meyrick, 1918
Species:
C. isocola
Binomial name
Crocogma isocola
Meyrick, 1918
Synonyms
  • Demopractis Meyrick, 1918
  • Demopractis tonaea Meyrick, 1918

The wingspan is about 12 mm. The forewings are pale ochreous, more or less irrorated fuscous, the costa and upper part of the termen suffused rather dark fuscous. The stigmata are blackish, with the discal large, the plical smaller, rather obliquely before the first discal. The hindwings are whitish-ochreous, with a deep ochreous-yellow streak of modified scales along the submedian fold.[2]

References edit

  1. ^ funet.fi
  2. ^ Exotic Microlep. 2 (4): 100   This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.