Biology:Antipterna diclethra
| Antipterna diclethra | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Oecophoridae |
| Genus: | Antipterna |
| Species: | A. diclethra
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| Binomial name | |
| Antipterna diclethra (Meyrick, 1885)
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Ocystola diclethra Meyrick, 1885 Machaeretis niphoessa Turner, 1940 | |
Antipterna diclethra is a species of moth in the family Oecophoridae, first described by Edward Meyrick in 1885 as Ocystola diclethra.<ref name=afd>{{cite web|url=https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/Antipterna_diclethra%7Caccess-date=2022-02-22%7C title=Australian Faunal Directory: Antipterna diclethra
Meyrick's description
Male & Female: 10-13 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, and thorax white; second joint of palpi externally grey on lower half, terminal joint ⅔ of second; antennal ciliations 2½. Abdomen light grey. Legs dark grey, posterior pair ochreous-whitish. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa gently arched, apex acute, hindmargin slightly sinuate, extremely oblique; snow-white; markings bright yellow-ochreous, more or less irrorated with dark fuscous; two small round generally confluent spots transversly placed in disc before middle, lower slightly anterior; a rather narrow fascia from ⅔ of costa to ¾ of inner margin, narrowly produced along inner margin to beneath anterior spots, and more broadly along costa to near apex, and connected below middle by a short slender bar with anal angle: cilia ochreous-whitish, suffused with ochreous and sometimes irrorated with dark fuscous between apex and anal angle. Hind-wings lanceolate, acute, veins 3 and 4 somewhat remote; light grey; cilia very pale greyish-ochreous.
Sydney, New South Wales; not uncommon from October to December.[2]
Further reading
References
Wikidata ☰ Q109424415 entry
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