Biology:Antipterna homoleuca
| Antipterna homoleuca | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Oecophoridae |
| Genus: | Antipterna |
| Species: | A. homoleuca
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| Binomial name | |
| Antipterna homoleuca (Meyrick, 1885)
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Ocystola homoleuca Meyrick, 1885 | |
Antipterna homoleuca is a species of moth in the family Oecophoridae, first described by Edward Meyrick in 1885 as Ocystola homoleuca.<ref name=afd>{{cite web|url=https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/Antipterna_homoleuca%7Caccess-date=2022-02-23%7C title=Australian Faunal Directory: Antipterna homoleuca
Meyrick's description
Male & female: 10-15 mm. Head and thorax white, faintly ochreous-tinged. Palpi white, anterior edge somewhat grey, terminal joint ⅔ of second. Antennae whitish, ciliations 5. Abdomen ochreous-whitish. Legs dark grey, posterior pair ochreous-whitish. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa moderately arched, apex acute, hindmargin extremely obliquely rounded; shining white; inner margin narrowly and slightly tinged with greyish-ochreous: cilia white, on anal angle somewhat greyish-ochreous. Hindwings broad-lanceolate, acute, veins 3 and 4 from a point or very slightly remote; light grey; cilia ochreous-grey-whitish.
Closely allied to 0. monostropha, but always smaller, with the thorax white, the grey suffusion of forewings hardly perceptible, and veins 3 and 4 of the hindwings hardly or not remote.
Sydney and Bathurst (2300 feet). New South Wales; Wirrabara Forest, South Australia; six specimens in October and November.[2]
Further reading
References
Wikidata ☰ Q109424421 entry
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