Odites cataxantha

Odites cataxantha is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1915. It is found in Madagascar.[1][2]

Odites cataxantha
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Depressariidae
Genus:
Odites
Species:
O. cataxantha
Binomial name
Odites cataxantha
Meyrick, 1915

The wingspan is about 14 mm. The forewings are deep yellow ochreous, faintly brownish tinged. The stigmata are dark fuscous, the plical small and indistinct, midway between the first and second discal. There is a pre-marginal series of dark fuscous dots around the posterior part of the costa and termen. The hindwings are ochreous whitish.[3]

References
  1. "Odites Walsingham, 1891" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms.
  2. Afro Moths
  3. Exotic Microlepidoptera 1 (12): 379


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