Odites metascia

Odites metascia is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1937. It is found in South Africa.[1][2]

Odites metascia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Depressariidae
Genus:
Odites
Species:
O. metascia
Binomial name
Odites metascia
Meyrick, 1937

The wingspan is about 17 mm for males and 20 mm for females. The forewings are ochreous whitish with the discal stigmata moderate and dark fuscous, the plical less marked, linear and rather obliquely beyond the first discal. There is a transverse fascia of slight grey suffusion about two-thirds in females also a broad terminal fascia of grey suffusion, darkest on the termen, in males little developed, but perceptible near the termen. The hindwings are cream whitish.[3]

References
  1. "Odites Walsingham, 1891" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms.
  2. Afro Moths
  3. Exotic Microlepidoptera 5 (4-5): 151 Archived March 4, 2016, at the Wayback Machine


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