Autosticha ansata

Autosticha ansata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Autostichidae
Genus: Autosticha
Species: A. ansata
Binomial name
Autosticha ansata
Meyrick, 1931

Autosticha ansata is a moth in the Autostichidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1931. It is found in India (Madras).[1]

The wingspan is 15-16 mm. The forewings are light greyish-ochreous, slightly sprinkled fuscous and with a suffused dark fuscous dot at the base of the costa. The stigmata are dark fuscous, the plical rather obliquely before the first discal. There is some dark fuscous irroration along the median third of the costa and there are transverse spots of brownish sutfusion and dark fuscous irroration from the costa and dorsum rather beyond the second discal stigma. A marginal series of cloudy dark fuscous dots is found around the apex and termen. The hindwings are light grey.[2]

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