Species of moth
Antipterna homoleuca is a species of moth in the family Oecophoridae, first described by Edward Meyrick in 1885 as Ocystola homoleuca.[1][2] The lectotype for Ocystola homoleuca was collected at Wirrabara, South Australia, while that for Ocystola argophanes was collected in Brisbane, Queensland.[1]
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]
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