Antaeotricha ophrysta is a moth of the family Depressariidae. It is found in Suriname.[1]
| Antaeotricha ophrysta | |
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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. ophrysta
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| Binomial name | |
| Antaeotricha ophrysta Meyrick, 1912
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The wingspan is about 25 mm. The forewings are white with a suffused grey streak along the basal third of the costa and a very faint transverse dorsal patch of pale grey suffusion before the middle, as well as a spot of pale grey suffusion on the dorsum beyond the middle and a moderately broad curved light grey fascia from beneath the middle of the costa to the tornus. The second discal stigma is blackish, closely preceding this and there is a series of four grey spots confluent on the margin traversing the apex. The hindwings are white, the apical half light grey and with an expansible fringe of long ochreous-whitish hairs extending along vein 8 from the base to two-thirds of the wing, the vein strongly sinuate beyond this. The costa with long projecting rough grey and whitish scales from the base to three-fourths.[2]
References
edit- ^ "Antaeotricha Zeller, 1854" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1911 (4): 708
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