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Antaeotricha epignampta

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Antaeotricha epignampta
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Depressariidae
Genus: Antaeotricha
Species:
A. epignampta
Binomial name
Antaeotricha epignampta
Meyrick, 1915

Antaeotricha epignampta is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1915. It is found in Peru.[1]

The wingspan is about 19 mm. The forewings are white with a narrow dark grey streak along the costa from the base to beyond one-fourth, with a short projection from its middle, and a rather oblique grey line from its apex reaching to the fold, as well as a somewhat oblique transverse dark grey mark on the end of the cell. There are small rather dark fuscous spots on the dorsum at three-fifths and four-fifths, and small fuscous spots on the costa beyond the middle and at three-fourths. A somewhat curved transverse fuscous shade is found behind the discal spot, the extremities directed towards but not reaching the first costal and second dorsal spots, and a rather curved shade from beneath the second costal spot to the dorsum before the tornus. There is a fuscous fascia around the apical part of the costa and termen, narrowed downwards, leaving the terminal edge whitish. The hindwings are whitish-ochreous-grey, with the costal margin rather expanded to beyond the middle, with long rough hairscales suffused with grey beneath, and a long whitish subcostal hairpencil lying beneath the forewings.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Antaeotricha Zeller, 1854 at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms.
  2. ^ Exotic Microlepidoptera 1 (13): 395 Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.