Biology:Antipterna diclethra

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Short description: Species of moth

Antipterna diclethra
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Oecophoridae
Genus: Antipterna
Species:
A. diclethra
Binomial name
Antipterna diclethra
(Meyrick, 1885)
Synonyms[1]

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]

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Wikidata ☰ Q109424415 entry