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Chlamydastis leucoplasta

species of insect

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ13464913 ↗
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Chlamydastis leucoplasta is a moth of the family Depressariidae. It is found in Peru and Brazil.

The wingspan is about 13 mm. The forewings are dark fuscous with a broad white fusiform costal band, almost from the base to the apex. There are two or three indistinct whitish dots on the termen. The hindwings are grey, darker in females.

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“Chlamydastis leucoplasta” enters the record as species of insect. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Chlamydastis, leucoplasta and species can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical orientation to terminology and classification, particularly when read beside dated observations, specimens or technical literature. The current 59-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Chlamydastis, leucoplasta and species.
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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 Aug 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q13464913. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Chlamydastis leucoplasta” 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.