Antaeotricha thesmophora

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

Antaeotricha thesmophora
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Depressariidae
Genus: Antaeotricha
Species:
A. thesmophora
Binomial name
Antaeotricha thesmophora
Meyrick, 1915

The wingspan is 18–20 mm. The forewings are white with dark fuscous-grey markings. There is an oblique blotch from the base of the costa to the fold and an irregular transverse streak at one-fourth, interrupted in the disc. A small spot is found beneath the fold before the middle, and two small cloudy spots are found on the dorsum towards the middle. There are two small spots on the costa before and beyond two-thirds, and two transversely placed at the end of the cell. A transverse blotch extends from beyond these to the dorsum before the tornus and there is an irregular almost apical spot. The hindwings are grey with the costal margin expanded to beyond the middle, with long rough projecting hairscales suffused with dark grey beneath, and a long whitish subcostal hair-pencil lying beneath the forewings.[2]

References

  1. "Antaeotricha Zeller, 1854" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. Exotic Microlepidoptera 1 (13): 392


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