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Antaeotricha fraterna

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Antaeotricha fraterna
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Depressariidae
Genus: Antaeotricha
Species:
A. fraterna
Binomial name
Antaeotricha fraterna
(Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)
Synonyms
  • Cryptolechia fraterna Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875
  • Antaeotricha perfusa Meyrick, 1916

Antaeotricha fraterna is a moth of the family Depressariidae. It is found in Brazil (Amazonas) and French Guiana.[1]

The wingspan is 18–19 mm. The forewings are whitish ochreous with a dark fuscous basal dot above the middle and some slight fuscous suffusion towards the dorsum at the base and beyond the first two lines. There are three dark fuscous transverse lines, the first from one-fifth of the costa to the middle of the dorsum, somewhat irregular, the second from the middle of the costa to four-fifths of the dorsum, slightly sinuate outwards in the middle, the third from three-fourths of the costa to the tornus, almost straight or slightly indented above the middle. There are also seven dark fuscous marginal dots around the apex and termen. The hindwings are whitish with a very long white subcostal hair-pencil from the base lying beneath the forewings, reaching four-fifths of the wing.[2]

References

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  1. ^ "Antaeotricha Zeller, 1854" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. ^ Description of Antaeotricha perfusa in Exotic Microlepidoptera 1 (16): 504 Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.