Pachnistis phaeoptila

Pachnistis phaeoptila is a moth in the family Autostichidae. It was described by John David Bradley in 1961 and is found in Java, Indonesia.[1]

The wingspan is about 15 mm. The forewings are warm buff, moderately sprinkled with mummy brown and with a strong dark mummy brown marking at the base of the costa, a similar small dash slightly outwardly oblique of this. There is a bold mummy brown spot in the disc before the middle at about two-fifths, a similar spot slightly obliquely before it in the plical fold, and a third larger spot at the end of the cell. There is also a series of small mummy brown interneural dots along the terminal margin continuing around the apex and along the costa to about three-fifths, the last two or three spots being slightly larger and more widely spaced. There is also a very weak pre-tornal marking and a small mummy brown dash near the base of the inner margin. The hindwings are greyish light buff.[2]