Antaeotricha marmorea

Antaeotricha marmorea
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Depressariidae
Genus:	Antaeotricha
Species:	A. marmorea
Binomial name
Antaeotricha marmorea (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)
Synonyms
Antaeotricha mentigera Meyrick, 1926 Antaeotricha quatiens Meyrick, 1930 Antaeotricha thalamobathra Meyrick, 1932

Antaeotricha marmorea is a moth of the family Depressariidae. It is found in Brazil (Amazonas, Para) and Bolivia.[1]

The wingspan is 24–25 mm. The forewings are greyish-ochreous with the extreme costal edge white except towards the base. There is a subcrescentic suffused white spot beneath the costa at one-fifth, and a patch of marbling at two-fifths, between these some dark fuscous irroration. A very acutely dentate suffused white line is found from the middle of the costa very obliquely outwards, curved in the disc and below the middle represented by lines on the veins, towards the costa preceded by dark fuscous irroration or suffusion. The dorsal edge and veins on the dorsal area are finely white, with some whitish tinge or suffusion between these. There is a slightly curved white line from the costa at four-fifths to the tornus, indented towards the costa. Some slight dark fuscous irroration is found above the apex between the veins. The hindwings are white posteriorly suffused light grey with the costa expanded anteriorly, with a strong projecting fringe to beyond the middle of dense whitish-grey hairscales becoming white at the tips, with a long expansible ochreous-whitish subcostal hair-pencil from the base to two-thirds.[2]

References

1. "Antaeotricha Zeller, 1854" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
2. Description of Antaeotricha mentigera in Exotic Microlepidoptera 3 (5-7): 236 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.