Crypsitricha mesotypa

Crypsitricha mesotypa is a species of moth in the family Tineidae.^[2] It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1888.^[3] This species is endemic to New Zealand.^[1]

Crypsitricha mesotypa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Tineidae
Genus:	Crypsitricha
Species:	C. mesotypa
Binomial name
Crypsitricha mesotypa (Meyrick, 1888)[1]
Synonyms
Endophthora mesotypa Meyrick, 1888

The wingspan is 10–14 mm. The forewings are light brownish-ochreous, irregularly suffused with ochreous-whitish. There are two small black spots on the costa towards the base and a blackish longitudinal mark in the disc near the base, as well as a straight rather oblique thick blackish bar from the costa at two-fifths, reaching more than half across the wing, followed by an ochreous-whitish bar. The space between these blackish markings is suffused with fuscous. The posterior half of the costa is blackish-fuscous spotted with ochreous-whitish and there is a small black spot in disc at two-thirds, more or less distinctly bisected by a projection from an ochreous-whitish spot beneath it. The hindwings are whitish-grey.^[4]