Hyodectis

Hyodectis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Gelechiidae
Subfamily:	Dichomeridinae
Genus:	Hyodectis Meyrick, 1904
Species:	H. crenoides
Binomial name
Hyodectis crenoides Meyrick, 1904

Hyodectis is a genus of moth in the family Gelechiidae.^[1] It contains only one species, Hyodectis crenoides, which is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from New South Wales and Victoria.^[2]

The wingspan is 14–17 mm. The forewings are rather light brown, sometimes golden-tinged and with a rather broad straight shining white streak above the middle from the base to the apex, suffusedly edged beneath with dark fuscous, especially posteriorly. There is sometimes a white dot at three-fourths touching its lower edge and is also sometimes an undefined fine whitish almost terminal line. The hindwings are whitish-fuscous or pale fuscous.^[3]

References

1. LepIndex
2. Hyodectis at funet
3. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 29 (2) : 411