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Cryptolechia hecate

species of insect

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ13502706 ↗
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Cryptolechia hecate is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1883. It is found in Chile.

The wingspan is about 17 mm. Adults are smoky black, the forewings above changing in certain lights to purplish. There is a reddish-cupreous curved marking at the end of the cell and there are a few scales of the same colour on the lower half of the dorsal margin, and a few more on the fringe towards the apex.

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The public source identifies “Cryptolechia hecate” as species of insect. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Cryptolechia, hecate and species.

Editorial reviewA practical orientation to terminology and classification, particularly when read beside dated observations, specimens or technical literature. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1883—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Cryptolechia, hecate and species providing the first useful test.
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The date and method of observation matter as much as the stated conclusion, especially where classification or consensus has changed. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q13502706. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1883.

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This entry incorporates text from “Cryptolechia hecate” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.