Hyodectis

{{Short description|Genus of moths}}

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| parent_authority = Meyrick, 1904

| taxon = Hyodectis crenoides

| authority = Meyrick, 1904

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Hyodectis is a genus of moth in the family Gelechiidae.{{LepIndex |id=102074 |access-date=May 25, 2018}} It contains only one species, Hyodectis crenoides, which is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from New South Wales and Victoria.[http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/gelechioidea/gelechiidae/dichomeridinae/hyodectis/ Hyodectis at funet]

The wingspan is {{cvt|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.{{cite journal|url=https://archive.org/stream/proceedingsoflin29linn#page/411/mode/1up |title=Descriptions of Australian Micro-Lepidoptera |journal=Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales |last=Meyrick |first=E. |volume=29 |issue=part II [number 114] |page=411 |date=1904 |via=Internet Archive |access-date=17 June 2020}} {{PD-notice}}