Antaeotricha quiescens

Antaeotricha quiescens is a moth of the family Depressariidae. It is found in French Guiana.[1]

Antaeotricha quiescens
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Depressariidae
Genus: Antaeotricha
Species:
A. quiescens
Binomial name
Antaeotricha quiescens
(Meyrick, 1916)
Synonyms
  • Stenoma quiescens Meyrick, 1916

The wingspan is 23–24 mm. The forewings are white, tinged with grey anteriorly and with the dorsal half rather dark greyish-fuscous throughout, this colour in the median area occupying rather more than half, the wider portion terminated by two cloudy darker dots on the end of the cell. The hindwings are grey, paler or whitish towards base.[2]

References

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  1. ^ "Antaeotricha Zeller, 1854" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. ^ Exotic Microlepidoptera 1 (17): 514   This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.