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Antaeotricha cryeropis

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Antaeotricha cryeropis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Depressariidae
Genus: Antaeotricha
Species:
A. cryeropis
Binomial name
Antaeotricha cryeropis
Meyrick, 1926

Antaeotricha cryeropis is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1926. It is found in Mexico (Guerrero).[1]

The wingspan is 23–25 mm. The forewings are white with a grey mottled blotch along the basal fourth of the costa, from the extremity of this an indistinct oblique grey shade runs to the posterior edge of a similar blotch partially mottled with blackish irroration extending along the dorsum from near the base to near the middle. There are two small somewhat obliquely placed dark grey subconfluent spots on the end of the cell, surrounded by a large irregular grey blotch, beneath this a cloudy dark grey spot on the dorsum at two-thirds. A somewhat curved erect grey shade is found from the dorsum before the tornus reaching two-thirds across the wing, and a lighter irregular or almost macular shade from the tornus more nearly reaching the costa. There is a grey terminal line. The hindwings are light grey, towards the base suffused whitish. The costa in males is rather expanded anteriorly, with a fringe of mostly white projecting scales, and a subcostal whitish hairpencil from the base reaching the middle.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Antaeotricha Zeller, 1854 at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms.
  2. ^ Exotic Microlepidoptera 3 (5-7): 167 Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.