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Antaeotricha haplocentra

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Antaeotricha haplocentra
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Depressariidae
Genus: Antaeotricha
Species:
A. haplocentra
Binomial name
Antaeotricha haplocentra
Meyrick, 1925

Antaeotricha haplocentra is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1925. It is found in Brazil.[1]

The wingspan is 16–17 mm. The forewings are greyish-ochreous or fuscous with the costal edge whitish-ochreous, continued around the termen as a waved line. The plical and second discal stigmata are dark fuscous, the plical linear. The hindwings are grey-whitish, with the posterior half suffused light grey and the costa in males expanded on the basal half, with a strong projecting fringe of greyish-ochreous or grey hairscales, and a whitish subcostal hairpencil from the base to beyond 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): 170Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.