Hygroplasta continctella

Hygroplasta continctella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lecithoceridae
Genus: Hygroplasta
Species: H. continctella
Binomial name
Hygroplasta continctella
(Walker, 1864)
Synonyms
  • Depressaria continctella Walker, 1864

Hygroplasta continctella is a moth in the Lecithoceridae family. It was described by Walker in 1864. It is found in southern India.[1]

Adults are cinereous-brown and stout, with the forewings are rather narrow, rounded at the tips, with two deep black dots in the disc, one before the middle, the other beyond the middle. The hindwings are cinereous.[2]

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