Atha

Atha
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Oecophoridae
Genus: Atha
Clarke, 1978
Species: A. trimacula
Binomial name
Atha trimacula
Clarke, 1978

Atha trimacula is a moth in the Oecophoridae family and only species in the Atha genus. It was described by Clarke in 1978. It is found in Chile.[1]

The wingspan is about 16 mm. The forewings are light buff overlaid with greyish fuscous, largely obscuring the lighter ground color. There is a conspicuous, outwardly oblique, fuscous spot at the basal two-fifths, in the cell and there is a similar longitudinal blotch on the fold at the basal two-fifths. Across the end of the cell is an oblique fuscous spot. The hindwings are light greyish fuscous, paler basally.[2]

References

  1. Atha at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms.
  2. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 273: 57


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