Antaeotricha thysanodes

Antaeotricha thysanodes is a moth of the family Depressariidae. It is found in Guyana, French Guiana and Brazil.[1]

Antaeotricha thysanodes
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Depressariidae
Genus: Antaeotricha
Species:
A. thysanodes
Binomial name
Antaeotricha thysanodes
(Meyrick, 1915)
Synonyms
  • Stenoma thysanodes Meyrick, 1915
  • Stenoma cynopis Meyrick, 1915

The wingspan is 28–31 mm. The forewings are purplish-brown, darker towards the base and along the costa, the posterior two-fifths suffused with light brownish-ochreous except towards the costa. The second discal stigma is small and dark fuscous. The hindwings are dark grey with the costal margin expanded to beyond the middle, on the undersurface with a subcostal fringe of long projecting grey-whitish hairs from above vein 8 towards its apex.[2]

References

  1. "Antaeotricha Zeller, 1854" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. Exotic Microlepidoptera 1 (14): 434


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