Antaeotricha laudata

Antaeotricha laudata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Depressariidae
Genus:	Antaeotricha
Species:	A. laudata
Binomial name
Antaeotricha laudata Meyrick, 1916

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

The wingspan is 21-23 mm. The forewings are white with a pale violet-grey basal patch suffusedly marked with dark purple-fuscous, occupying about one-third of the wing, the edge slightly oblique, with a strong fulvous-brown mark from the dorsum. There are some faint grey markings on the dorsal half beyond this, and a dark grey spot on the dorsum at two-thirds, as well as two dark grey dots transversely placed at the end of the cell. A somewhat curved rather irregular grey or dark grey line is found from the costa beyond the middle to the dorsum before the tornus, sometimes interrupted and there is also a straight oblique grey shade terminating in the tornus not reaching the costa. A triangular grey spot occupies the upper two-thirds of the termen. The hindwings are light grey, more or less suffused with whitish on the basal half, the costa expanded from the base to two-thirds, with a strong broad projection of rough hairscales suffused with dark grey beneath, and a long pale ochreous subcostal hairpencil lying in a prismatic groove suffused with fuscous at the base concealed by the forewings.^[2]

References

1. Antaeotricha at funet
2. Exot. Microlep. 1 (16): 496