Biology:Antaeotricha mesosaris

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Short description: Species of moth

Antaeotricha mesosaris
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Depressariidae
Genus: Antaeotricha
Species:
A. mesosaris
Binomial name
Antaeotricha mesosaris
(Meyrick, 1925)
Synonyms
  • Stenoma mesosaris Meyrick, 1925

Antaeotricha mesosaris is a moth of the family Depressariidae. It is found in French Guiana.[1]

The wingspan is about 10 mm. The forewings are ochreous-whitish, whiter towards the costa and with a short thick dark fuscous streak along the base of the dorsum and a few fuscous specks scattered in a line from the costa beyond one-fourth to the middle of the dorsum, with minute dark fuscous first discal and large plical and dorsal dots. There is a slightly curved cloudy dark fuscous streak from the costa at three-fifths to the dorsum at three-fourths, traversing the blackish second discal stigma, and a similar nearly straight streak from the costa at five-sixths to the tornus, the space between these more or less tinged grey except on the costa. The hindwings are whitish-hyaline, with the veins and terminal area greyish and with an expansible whitish hair-pencil rising from the end of the cell.[2]

References

  1. "Antaeotricha Zeller, 1854" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. Exotic Microlepidoptera 3 (5-7): 178

Wikidata ☰ Q22285904 entry