Antaeotricha palaestrias

Short description: Species of moth

Antaeotricha palaestrias

Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Lepidoptera
Family:  | Depressariidae
Genus:  | Antaeotricha
Species:  |

A. palaestrias

Binomial name
Antaeotricha palaestrias

Meyrick, 1916

Antaeotricha palaestrias is a species of moth of the family Depressariidae. It is found in French Guiana.[1]

The wingspan is 13–15 mm. The forewings are shining white with dark fuscous markings. There is a longitudinal line from the base of the costa to one-fifth of the disc and a short dash beneath the apex of this. There is a small spot on the base of the dorsum and a rather short oblique line in the disc about one-fourth, as well as a triangular blotch towards the middle of the dorsum reaching nearly half across the wing. There is also a dash in the middle of the disc, and one rather before and above this sometimes little marked and there is a quadrate blotch on the dorsum before the tornus, reaching nearly half across the wing. Hardly curved lines are found from the costa at the middle and three-fourths running to the upper angles of this blotch and there is a dash in the disc above the middle between these, as well as a small suffused apical spot. Three or four black marginal dots are found around the apex. The hindwings are grey-whitish with a long whitish subcostal hair-pencil from the base lying beneath the forewings.[2]

## References

1. ↑ "Antaeotricha Zeller, 1854" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
2. ↑ Exotic Microlepidoptera 1 (16): 502

Wikidata ☰ Q13377885 entry

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