Antaeotricha lophoptycha

Antaeotricha lophoptycha is a moth of the family Depressariidae. It is found in Brazil (Para).[1]

Antaeotricha lophoptycha
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Depressariidae
Genus: Antaeotricha
Species:
A. lophoptycha
Binomial name
Antaeotricha lophoptycha
(Meyrick, 1925)
Synonyms
  • Stenoma lophoptycha Meyrick, 1925

The wingspan is about 17 mm. The forewings are white, the dorsal half tinged and irregularly irrorated fuscous. There is a subcostal groove from the base to two-fifths enclosing a white expansible hair-pencil and covered by a fringe of white scales. A short dark fuscous median dash is found near the base and there is a suffused dark fuscous oblique-elongate spot representing the first discal stigma, from before the middle of the dorsum a suffused dark fuscous triangular blotch extends towards this. The second discal stigma is dark fuscous, a faint oblique fuscous line from the middle of the costa to before this. There is an oblong dark fuscous blotch on the dorsum before the tornus, a nearly straight dark fuscous line from the costa at three-fourths running to the posterior angle of this. About seven dark fuscous marginal dots are found around the apex and termen. The hindwings are whitish, tinged grey posteriorly.[2]

References

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  1. ^ "Antaeotricha Zeller, 1854" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. ^ Exotic Microlepidoptera 3 (5-7): 188   This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.