''Eupoecilia cracens'' is a species of

moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...

of the family

Tortricidae The Tortricidae are a family of moths, commonly known as tortrix moths or leafroller moths, in the order Lepidoptera. This large family has over 11,000 species described, and is the sole member of the superfamily Tortricoidea, although the genu ...

first described by

Alexey Diakonoff Alexey Nikolaievich Diakonoff (1 March 1907 – 20 September 1989), also transliterated as Alexej Nikolajewitsch Diakonoff, was a Russian–Dutch entomologist who specialised in Microlepidoptera. His parents immigrated to the Netherlands East I ...

in 1982. It is found in

Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...

Description

The wingspan of the male is 13 mm. Head and thorax pale ochreous. Frons whitish. Palpus whitish ochreous. Antenna pale ochreous. Abdomen pale ochreous. Forewings oblong, and costa curved at base. Apex pointed. Forewings pale golden ochreous with, greyish suffusion in costa. Costal half triangularly dilated upwards, which is suffused grey. Cilia glossy whitish ochreous. Hindwings pale ochreous. Whitish towards cell.

References

Moths described in 1982 Eupoecilia {{Cochylini-stub