Antaeotricha sciospila

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

Antaeotricha sciospila
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Depressariidae
Genus: Antaeotricha
Species:
A. sciospila
Binomial name
Antaeotricha sciospila
(Meyrick, 1930)
Synonyms
  • Stenoma sciospila Meyrick, 1930

The wingspan is 24–25 mm. The forewings are ochreous whitish, with the veins more or less strongly streaked with fuscous, tending to obsolescence towards the costa and sometimes towards the termen and there is a short very oblique fuscous streak from the costa near the base. There is a suffused dark fuscous subquadrate blotch on the middle of the dorsum. An obtusely angulated greyish shade is found from beyond the middle of the costa to three-fourths of the dorsum more or less indicated, the ground colour is sometimes tinged with grey between the neural streaks posteriorly, and there is an undefined blotch of grey suffusion occupying the basal half of veins 3–7. The hindwings are grey.[2]

References
  1. Savela, Markku, ed. (April 30, 2020). "Antaeotricha sciospila (Meyrick, 1930)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved September 8, 2020.
  2. Exotic Microlepidoptera. 4 (1): 27. Archived 2015-09-23 at the Wayback Machine


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