Crambodoxa
Genus of moths
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Crambodoxa is a genus of moths in the family Gelechiidae. It contains the species Crambodoxa platyaula, which is found in Colombia.[1]
| Crambodoxa | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gelechiidae |
| Genus: | Crambodoxa Meyrick, 1913 |
| Species: | C. platyaula |
| Binomial name | |
| Crambodoxa platyaula Meyrick, 1913 | |
The wingspan is about 23 mm. The forewings are brownish, the dorsum and anterior half of the costa suffused with darker brown and with a broad silvery-white supra-median streak from the base to the apex, edged beneath with blackish-brown, the lower edge angular-prominent in the middle, where a streak of blackish-brown suffusion runs to the tornus. The hindwings are grey.[2]
