Cryptophasa stenoleuca
Cryptophasa stenoleuca is a moth in the family Xyloryctidae. It was described by Lower in 1894. It is found in Australia,[1] where it has been recorded from New South Wales, the Northern Territory, Queensland and Western Australia.
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| Species: | C. stenoleuca |
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The wingspan is about 40 mm for males and 47 mm for females. The forewings are fuscous, finely irrorated with black scales and with a narrow whitish streak along the costa from very near the base almost to the apex, attenuated at the extremities. There are two very suffused and hardly traceable small dark-fuscous patches in the centre of the wing and two from near the middle. The hindwings are snow-white, infuscated along the hindmargin and apical half of the wing.
The larvae feed on Grevillea striata. They bore in the stem of their host plant.[2]