Antaeotricha excisa
Antaeotricha excisa is a species of moth of the family Depressariidae. It is found in the Guianas and Brazil.[1]
Antaeotricha excisa | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Depressariidae |
Genus: | Antaeotricha |
Species: | A. excisa |
Binomial name | |
Antaeotricha excisa Meyrick, 1916 | |
The wingspan is 18–20 mm. The forewings are white with a violet-grey basal patch suffusedly spotted with dark fuscous occupying one-fourth of the wing, the edge slightly oblique and with two small cloudy fuscous spots on the dorsum towards the middle. There is a black dot on the lower angle of the cell, and a fuscous one on the upper, as well as a curved series of several small indistinct fuscous marks running from the costa beyond the middle to the dorsum before the tornus and a somewhat sinuate indistinct fuscous shade from five-sixths of the costa to the tornus. A cloudy dark fuscous spot is found on the apex and upper part of the termen. The hindwings are ochreous-grey-whitish with the costa expanded from the base to two-thirds and with a broad projection of long rough hairscales suffused with grey beneath, and a long whitish subcostal hairpencil lying in an ochreous groove from the base concealed beneath the forewings.[2]
References
- "Antaeotricha Zeller, 1854" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- Exotic Microlepidoptera 1 (16): 496
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