Biology:Antaeotricha diplophaea
| Antaeotricha diplophaea | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Depressariidae |
| Genus: | Antaeotricha |
| Species: | A. diplophaea
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| Binomial name | |
| Antaeotricha diplophaea Meyrick, 1916
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Antaeotricha diplophaea is a species of moth of the family Depressariidae. It is found in French Guiana.[1]
The wingspan is 17–18 mm for males and about 22 mm for females. The forewings are white with a suffused grey blotch mixed with dark grey occupying the costal half from the base to one-third, the outer edge slightly oblique. A broad irregular grey streak proceeding from this above the upper margin of the cell, projecting upwards in the middle of the wing, curved more broadly around a small dark fuscous spot on the end of the cell and uniting with a broad irregular streak along the dorsum from the base almost to the tornus, which is marked with a suffused dark fuscous spot at one-third and an indistinct dark spot beyond the middle, these streaks indistinctly connected before the middle. There is also a narrow cloudy grey spot on the costa at three-fourths and a thick grey streak along the termen not reaching the tornus. The hindwings are grey, paler towards the base and with the costa rather expanded from the base to three-fourths, with a broad projection of long rough scales suffused with grey beneath, and a long grey-whitish subcostal hairpencil from the base in the groove lying beneath the forewings.[2]
References
- ↑ "Antaeotricha Zeller, 1854" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ↑ Exotic Microlepidoptera 1 (16): 494
Wikidata ☰ Q13376888 entry
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