Taygete platysoma

Taygete platysoma
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Autostichidae
Genus: Taygete
Species: T. platysoma
Binomial name
Taygete platysoma
(Walsingham, 1910)
Synonyms
  • Epithectis platysoma Walsingham, 1910

Taygete platysoma is a moth in the Autostichidae family. It was described by Walsingham in 1910. It is found in Mexico (Durango, Veracruz).[1]

The wingspan is 18-21 mm. The forewings are pale fawn-ochreous, with a short dull brown basal patch and a slightly oblique dark brown half-fascia at one-third from the costa to the fold, somewhat interrupted below its broad costal extremity. A shorter semi-fasciaform blotch of the same colour beyond the middle, not reaching to the fold in some specimens, but continued posteriorly to the dorsum in others the apex and termen being also clouded with dull brown. The hindwings are pale cinereous, with a slight ochreous tinge.[2]

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