Chlamydastis forcipata

Chlamydastis forcipata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Depressariidae
Genus:	Chlamydastis
Species:	C. forcipata
Binomial name
	Chlamydastis forcipata; (Meyrick, 1913)
Synonyms
	Agriophara forcipata Meyrick, 1913;

Chlamydastis forcipata is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1913. It is found in Colombia.[1]

The wingspan is about 23 mm. The forewings are white, sprinkled with brown and a few black scales and with brown costal spots at one-fifth and two-fifths, and a larger one at three-fourths. A small subcostal tuft of black and brown scales is found beyond the first of these and there is a brown median longitudinal streak from the base to the end of the cell, where it expands into a brown cloud surrounding posteriorly the blackish white-centred second discal stigma, the first discal stigma black, placed on the upper edge of this streak. There is a rather irregular series of indistinct blackish dots suffused with brown from the third costal spot to before the tornus, and a row of more distinct blackish dots near the termen. The hindwings are ochreous-whitish.[2]

References

Chlamydastis at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms.
Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1913 (1): 183 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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[1] Chlamydastis at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms.

[2] Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1913 (1): 183 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.