Cladophantis spilozeucta

Cladophantis spilozeucta
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Xyloryctidae
Genus: Cladophantis
Species: C. spilozeucta
Binomial name
Cladophantis spilozeucta
Meyrick, 1927

Cladophantis spilozeucta is a moth in the Xyloryctidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1927. It is found in South Africa.[1][2]

The wingspan is about 23 mm. The forewings are fuscous suffusedly mixed with white and with a short dark fuscous dash from the base above the middle and an oblique darker streak from the costa at one-fourth reaching half across the wing. There is an angulated extension of this, and two posterior oblique transverse strongly curved shades faintly indicated. The discal stigmata are black, connected by a fine black line and there is a marginal series of short dark fuscous marks around the posterior part of the costa and termen. The hindwings are grey-whitish, the edge slightly marked grey around the apex and upper part of the termen.[3]

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