Antaeotricha sciospila

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

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

The wingspan is 24–25 mm. The forewings are ochreous-whitish, with the veins more or less strongly streaked fuscous, tending to obsolescence towards the costa and sometimes towards the termen and there is a short very oblique fuscous streak from the costa near the base. There is a suffused dark fuscous subquadrate blotch on the middle of the dorsum. An obtusely angulated greyish shade is found from beyond the middle of the costa to three-fourths of the dorsum more or less indicated, the ground colour is sometimes tinged grey between the neural streaks posteriorly, and there is an undefined blotch of grey suffusion occupying the basal half of veins 3-7. The hindwings are grey.[2]

References
  1. "Antaeotricha Zeller, 1854" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms.
  2. Exotic Microlepidoptera 4 (1): 27 Archived 2015-09-23 at the Wayback Machine


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