Antaeotricha virens

Antaeotricha virens
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Depressariidae
Genus:	Antaeotricha
Species:	A. virens
Binomial name
	Antaeotricha virens; (Meyrick, 1912)
Synonyms
	Prasolithites virens Meyrick, 1912; Stenoma viridis Busck, 1914;

Antaeotricha virens is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1912. It is found in Colombia and Panama.[1]

The wingspan is about 32 mm. The forewings are greenish-fuscous with the costal edge fulvous-brown, edged beneath with violet suffusion from the base to beyond the middle and with a small violet-white oblique mark beneath the costa at two-fifths and a large dull green patch occupying nearly the apical half of the wing, its anterior edge running from about the middle of the costa to two-thirds of the dorsum, but with its upper three-fifths forming a broad triangular projection which extends inwards to above the fold at one-fourth, the ground colour beneath this projection somewhat prominent outwardly and including a small indistinct group of whitish scales. The hindwings are whitish-ochreous, the basal three-fifths tinged with light fuscous.[2]

References

"Antaeotricha Zeller, 1854" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms.
Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1911 (4): 707

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[1] "Antaeotricha Zeller, 1854" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms.

[2] Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1911 (4): 707