Dacryphanes Cyanastra
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''Dacryphanes'' is a monotypic moth genus in the family
Eriocottidae Eriocottidae or Old World spiny-winged moths is a family of insects in the order Lepidoptera whose position relative to other members of the superfamily Tineoidea is currently unknown. There are two subfamilies, Compsocteninae and Eriocottinae. ...
. Its only species, ''Dacryphanes cyanastra'', is found in India. Both the genus and species were first described by Edward Meyrick in 1907. The moth is 15–18 mm. The forewings are dark fuscous with six indeterminate groups of blue-metallic or violet-metallic dots, sometimes surrounded by an indefinite cloudy paler suffusion. The hindwings are rather dark bronzy fuscous, darker towards apex.''Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society''. 18: 154.


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Moths described in 1907 Eriocottidae Moths of Asia {{Eriocottidae-stub