Antaeotricha laudata

Antaeotricha laudata is a species of moth of the family Depressariidae. It is found in French Guiana, Brazil and Bolivia.[1]

Antaeotricha laudata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Depressariidae
Genus: Antaeotricha
Species:
A. laudata
Binomial name
Antaeotricha laudata
Meyrick, 1916

The wingspan is 21–23 mm. The forewings are white with a pale violet-grey basal patch suffusedly marked with dark purple-fuscous, occupying about one-third of the wing, the edge slightly oblique, with a strong fulvous-brown mark from the dorsum. There are some faint grey markings on the dorsal half beyond this, and a dark grey spot on the dorsum at two-thirds, as well as two dark grey dots transversely placed at the end of the cell. A somewhat curved rather irregular grey or dark grey line is found from the costa beyond the middle to the dorsum before the tornus, sometimes interrupted and there is also a straight oblique grey shade terminating in the tornus not reaching the costa. A triangular grey spot occupies the upper two-thirds of the termen. The hindwings are light grey, more or less suffused with whitish on the basal half, the costa expanded from the base to two-thirds, with a strong broad projection of rough hairscales suffused with dark grey beneath, and a long pale ochreous subcostal hair-pencil lying in a prismatic groove suffused with fuscous at the base concealed by the forewings.[2]

References

  1. "Antaeotricha Zeller, 1854" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. Exotic Microlepidoptera 1 (16): 496


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