Antipterna lithophanes is a species of moth in the family Oecophoridae, first described by Edward Meyrick in 1885 as Ocystola lithophanes.[1][2] The lectotype for Ocystola lithophanes was collected at Deloraine, Tasmania.[1] Holotypes for Alfred Jefferis Turner's synonyms were collected from Queensland and New South Wales.[1]
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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. lithophanes
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| Binomial name | |
| Antipterna lithophanes (Meyrick, 1885)
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Ocystola lithophanes Meyrick, 1885 | |
Occurrence data from GBIF shows A. lithophanes occurring in Victoria, and New South Wales.[3]
Meyrick's description
editMale & female: 18-19 mm. Head grey-whitish, crown more or less grey. Palpi grey, apex of second joint white, terminal joint ⅔ of second. Antennae, thorax, abdomen, and legs grey; antennal ciliations 4; posterior legs grey-whitish. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa gently arched, apex round-pointed, hindmargin extremely obliquely rounded; shining grey; costa suffused with ochreous-white, in male forming a definite moderate streak: cilia whitish-grey. Hindwings broad-lanceolate, round-pointed, veins 3 and 4 from a point; grey; cilia light grey.
Deloraine, Tasmania; two specimens in November.[2]
References
edit- ^ a b c d "Australian Faunal Directory: Antipterna lithophanes". biodiversity.org.au. Retrieved 23 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 [1075].
- ^ "Antipterna lithophanes". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 23 February 2022.
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.
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