Antaeotricha basalis is a species of moth of the family Depressariidae. It is found in Argentina.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Depressariidae |
| Genus: | Antaeotricha |
| Species: | A. basalis
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| Binomial name | |
| Antaeotricha basalis Zeller, 1854
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The wingspan is about 27 mm. The forewings are ochreous-whitish with three short blackish bars suffused together with grey forming an elongate blotch along the basal fourth of the costa and with projecting ochreous-whitish dorsal scales. There is a fine linear fuscous dot on the fold at one-third of the wing and a blackish-fuscous dot at the end of the cell, as well as a faint pale fuscous irregular curved shade from beyond the middle of the costa to three-fourths of the dorsum and a faint light fuscous rather curved shade terminating in the tornus, not nearly reaching the costa. A fuscous elongate mark is found on the costa at three-fourths and there are two or three small cloudy fuscous spots around the apex. The hindwings are whitish-grey, becoming whitish anteriorly. The costa is expanded from the base to two-thirds, with a broad projection of long rough hairscales suffused with dark grey beneath, and a long whitish subcostal hairpencil from the base lying beneath the forewings.[2]
References
edit- ^ "Antaeotricha Zeller, 1854" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ Description of Antaeotricha harpobathra in Exotic Microlepidoptera 1 (16): 499
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