Antaeotricha orthophaea

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

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

The wingspan is 19–20 mm. The forewings are dull white with a grey basal patch, mottled dark fuscous, the edge oblique, from one-fourth of the costa to two-fifths of the dorsum. There is a small black spot on the middle of the dorsum, surrounded by a light grey cloud. The first discal stigma is grey and there is a sinuate grey line from the end of the cell to the dorsum at four-fifths, the lower end blackish. An irregular oblique grey shade is found from the middle of the costa, reaching it across the wing near beyond this. There is a hardly curved grey line from a triangular costal spot at three-fourths to the tornus, separated by a white line from a dark grey terminal fascia including a waved white terminal line. The hindwings are light grey.[2]

References
  1. "Antaeotricha Zeller, 1854" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms.
  2. Exotic Microlepidoptera 4 (1): 20 Archived 2015-09-23 at the Wayback Machine


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