Antaeotricha haplocentra

Antaeotricha haplocentra is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1925. It is found in Brazil.[1]

Antaeotricha haplocentra
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Depressariidae
Genus: Antaeotricha
Species:
A. haplocentra
Binomial name
Antaeotricha haplocentra
Meyrick, 1925

The wingspan is 16–17 mm. The forewings are greyish-ochreous or fuscous with the costal edge whitish-ochreous, continued around the termen as a waved line. The plical and second discal stigmata are dark fuscous, the plical linear. The hindwings are grey-whitish, with the posterior half suffused light grey and the costa in males expanded on the basal half, with a strong projecting fringe of greyish-ochreous or grey hairscales, and a whitish subcostal hairpencil from the base to beyond the middle.[2]

References

  1. "Antaeotricha Zeller, 1854" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms.
  2. Exotic Microlepidoptera 3 (5-7): 170


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