Atha

Short description: Species of moth

Atha

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Lepidoptera
Family:  | Oecophoridae
Subfamily:  | Oecophorinae
Genus:  | Atha
J. F. G. Clarke, 1978
Species:  |

A. trimacula

Binomial name
Atha trimacula

J. F. G. Clarke, 1978

Atha is a monotypic moth genus in the family Oecophoridae. Its only species, Atha trimacula, is found in Chile . Both the genus and species were described by John Frederick Gates Clarke in 1978.[1]

The wingspan is about 16 mm. The forewings are light buff overlaid with greyish fuscous, largely obscuring the lighter ground colour. 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. ↑ Savela, Markku. "Atha Clarke, 1978". https://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/gelechioidea/oecophoridae/oecophorinae/atha/. Retrieved August 14, 2019.
2. ↑ Clarke, J. F. Gates (1978). "Neotropical Microlepidoptera, XXI: New Genera and Species of Oecophoridae from Chile". Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology (273): 57. https://www.sil.si.edu/smithsoniancontributions/zoology/pdf_hi/SCTZ-0273.pdf. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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