Antaeotricha lophoptycha

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

Antaeotricha lophoptycha is a moth of the Depressariidae family. It is found in Brazil (Para).^[1]

The wingspan is about 17 mm. The forewings are white, the dorsal half tinged and irregularly irrorated fuscous. There is a subcostal groove from the base to two-fifths enclosing a white expansible hairpencil and covered by a fringe of white scales. A short dark fuscous median dash is found near the base and there is a suffused dark fuscous oblique-elongate spot representing the first discal stigma, from before the middle of the dorsum a suffused dark fuscous triangular blotch extends towards this. The second discal stigma is dark fuscous, a faint oblique fuscous line from the middle of the costa to before this. There is an oblong dark fuscous blotch on the dorsum before the tornus, a nearly straight dark fuscous line from the costa at three-fourths running to the posterior angle of this. About seven dark fuscous marginal dots are found around the apex and termen. The hindwings are whitish, tinged grey posteriorly.^[2]

References

1. Antaeotricha at funet
2. Exot. Microlep. 3 (5-7): 188