Antaeotricha spermolitha

Antaeotricha spermolitha is a moth of the family Depressariidae. It is found in Guyana.[1]

Antaeotricha spermolitha
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Depressariidae
Genus: Antaeotricha
Species:
A. spermolitha
Binomial name
Antaeotricha spermolitha
(Meyrick, 1915)
Synonyms
  • Stenoma spermolitha Meyrick, 1915

The wingspan is about 23 mm. The forewings are pale fuscous, irrorated with dark fuscous and with the extreme costal edge whitish-ochreous from one-fourth onwards. The dorsal scale-projection towards the base is rather conspicuous, whitish-ochreous, irrorated with dark grey and there is a small blackish dot on the costal edge at two-fifths and a marginal series of small blackish marks placed in a whitish-ochreous line along the posterior half of the costa and termen. The hindwings are grey.[2]

References

  1. "Antaeotricha Zeller, 1854" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. Exotic Microlepidoptera 1 (14): 432


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