Antaeotricha pellocoma
Antaeotricha pellocoma is a moth of the family Depressariidae. It is found in French Guiana, Guyana, Brazil and Bolivia.[1]
Antaeotricha pellocoma | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Depressariidae |
Genus: | Antaeotricha |
Species: | A. pellocoma |
Binomial name | |
Antaeotricha pellocoma (Meyrick, 1915) | |
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The wingspan is about 16 mm. The forewings are white with two blackish dots transversely placed on the end of the cell and a grey quadrate blotch extending from these to the termen and reaching the dorsum but not the costa, becoming dark grey towards the termen, and crossed anteriorly by a faint whitish shade and posteriorly by a fine white line denticulate towards the tornus. The hindwings are white, suffused with light grey on the apical third and with a long whitish subcostal hair-pencil lying beneath the forewings.[2]
References
- "Antaeotricha Zeller, 1854" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- Exotic Microlepidoptera 1 (13): 387
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