Antaeotricha ophrysta

Antaeotricha ophrysta
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Depressariidae
Genus: Antaeotricha
Species: A. ophrysta
Binomial name
Antaeotricha ophrysta
Meyrick, 1912

Antaeotricha ophrysta is a moth of the Depressariidae family. It is found in Surinam.[1]

The wingspan is about 25 mm. The forewings are white with a suffused grey streak along the basal third of the costa and a very faint transverse dorsal patch of pale grey suffusion before the middle, as well as a spot of pale grey suffusion on the dorsum beyond the middle and a moderately broad curved light grey fascia from beneath the middle of the costa to the tornus. The second discal stigma is blackish, closely preceding this and there is a series of four grey spots confluent on the margin traversing the apex. The hindwings are white, the apical half light grey and with an expansible fringe of long ochreous-whitish hairs extending along vein 8 from the base to two-thirds of the wing, the vein strongly sinuate beyond this. The costa with long projecting rough grey and whitish scales from the base to three-fourths.[2]

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