Odites pragmatias

Odites pragmatias
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Depressariidae
Genus:	Odites
Species:	O. pragmatias
Binomial name
Odites pragmatias Meyrick, 1914

Odites pragmatias is a moth in the Depressariidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1914. It is found in southern India.^[1]

The wingspan is 17-18 mm. The forewings are whitish, sometimes partially suffused with very pale greyish-ochreous, with irregularly scattered blackish scales and with a blackish transverse mark on the base of the costa, and a short suffused blackish streak along the base of the dorsum. The stigmata are black, the plical obliquely beyond the first discal. There is a curved series of four large blackish dots in the disc at five-sixths, and one on the dorsum below the second discal. There is also a series of blackish dots around the posterior part of the costa and termen. The hindwings are pale greyish-ochreous.^[2]

References

1. Odites at funet.fi.
2. J. Bombay nat. hist. Soc. 22 (4): 780