Apiletria tripleura

Apiletria tripleura
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Autostichidae
Genus: Apiletria
Species: A. tripleura
Binomial name
Apiletria tripleura
(Meyrick, 1914)
Synonyms
  • Xystoceros tripleura Meyrick, 1914

Apiletria tripleura is a moth in the Autostichidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1914. It is found in the western Himalayas.[1]

The wingspan is about 18 mm. The forewings are grey suffusedly mixed with light ochreous-yellowish, and towards the apex mixed with white. There is a narrow white costal streak from the base to near the apex and a white streak in the disc from one-fourth to the termen, attenuated to a point anteriorly, becoming bifurcate posteriorly. There is also a white streak along the submedian fold from the base to the toruus. The hindwings are grey.[2]

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