Antaeotricha amphizyga

Antaeotricha amphizyga is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1930. It is found in Brazil (Para).[1]

Antaeotricha amphizyga
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Depressariidae
Genus: Antaeotricha
Species:
A. amphizyga
Binomial name
Antaeotricha amphizyga
Meyrick, 1930

The wingspan is about 16 mm. The forewings are dull white with markings of dark fuscous mottling suffused grey and with a dot on the base of the costa and a broad irregular oblique almost basal fascia continued on the dorsal two-fifths of the wing to unite with a broad slightly sinuate fascia from two-thirds of the costa to the dorsum before the tornus, the second fascia mixed white internally on the upper half and carrying a black discal dot surrounded by white on the anterior edge. There is a suffused spot from the costa before the upper part of the termen, the posterior edge waved and leaving the termen white. The hindwings are grey.[2]

References
  1. Antaeotricha Zeller, 1854 at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms.
  2. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 44: 234


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