Antipterna diclethra is a species of moth in the family Oecophoridae, first described by Edward Meyrick in 1885 as Ocystola diclethra.[1][2] Lectotypes for both Ocystola diclethra and Machaeretis niphoessa were both collected in greater Sydney, New South Wales.[1]
| Antipterna diclethra | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Oecophoridae |
| Genus: | Antipterna |
| Species: | A. diclethra
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| Binomial name | |
| Antipterna diclethra (Meyrick, 1885)
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Ocystola diclethra Meyrick, 1885 Machaeretis niphoessa Turner, 1940 | |
Meyrick's description
editMale & Female: 10-13 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, and thorax white; second joint of palpi externally grey on lower half, terminal joint ⅔ of second; antennal ciliations 2½. Abdomen light grey. Legs dark grey, posterior pair ochreous-whitish. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa gently arched, apex acute, hindmargin slightly sinuate, extremely oblique; snow-white; markings bright yellow-ochreous, more or less irrorated with dark fuscous; two small round generally confluent spots transversly placed in disc before middle, lower slightly anterior; a rather narrow fascia from ⅔ of costa to ¾ of inner margin, narrowly produced along inner margin to beneath anterior spots, and more broadly along costa to near apex, and connected below middle by a short slender bar with anal angle: cilia ochreous-whitish, suffused with ochreous and sometimes irrorated with dark fuscous between apex and anal angle. Hind-wings lanceolate, acute, veins 3 and 4 somewhat remote; light grey; cilia very pale greyish-ochreous.
Sydney, New South Wales; not uncommon from October to December.[2]
Further reading
edit- Ian F. B. Common (1994). Oecophorinae Genera of Australia I—the Wingia group (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae). Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing. p. i-xvi, 1-390. ISBN 0-643-05524-X. OL 21080057M. Wikidata Q110980740.
References
edit- ^ a b c "Australian Faunal Directory: Antipterna diclethra". biodiversity.org.au. Retrieved 22 February 2022.
- ^ a b Meyrick, E. (1885). "Description of Australian Micro-lepidoptera. XII. Oecophoridae". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 1. 9 (4): 1045-1082 [1079].
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