Odites pelochrosta

Odites pelochrosta is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1933. It is found in Sierra Leone.[1][2]

Odites pelochrosta
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O. pelochrosta
Binomial name
Odites pelochrosta
Meyrick, 1933

The wingspan is about 20 mm. The forewings are light greyish ochreous with a small dark fuscous spot on the dorsum at one-fourth and four or five scattered blackish scales towards the costa at one-fourth, a very few scattered in the disc and towards the termen, and a larger irregular accumulation towards the costa at three-fourths. The plical and second discal stigmata are minute and dark fuscous. There is a terminal series of minute blackish dots. The hindwings are closely and minutely speckled grey.[3]

References

  1. "Odites Walsingham, 1891" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms.
  2. Afro Moths
  3. Exotic Microlepidoptera 4 (13-14): 434


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