Antaeotricha infecta

Antaeotricha infecta is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1930. It is found in Brazil (Para).[1]

Antaeotricha infecta
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Depressariidae
Genus: Antaeotricha
Species:
A. infecta
Binomial name
Antaeotricha infecta
(Meyrick, 1930)
Synonyms
  • Stenoma infecta Meyrick, 1930

The wingspan is about 13 mm for males and 16 mm for females. The forewings are ochreous-brownish with the plical and second discal stigmata minute and dark fuscous. There are small fine oblique marks of fuscous irroration from the costa about one-third and the middle, as well as very fine linear interneural blackish marginal marks around the posterior part of the costa and apex, and two or three minute dots on the termen. The hindwings are dark grey.[2]

References

  1. "Antaeotricha Zeller, 1854" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms.
  2. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 44: 254


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