Antipterna lithophanes

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

Ocystola lithophanes Meyrick, 1885
Ocystola linoleuca Turner, 1940
Philobota chionoleuca Turner, 1944
Philobota notomolybda Turner, 1944

Antipterna lithophanes is a species of moth in the family Oecophoridae, first described by Edward Meyrick in 1885 as Ocystola lithophanes.[1][2] The lectotype for Ocystola lithophanes was collected at Deloraine, Tasmania.[1] Holotypes for Alfred Jefferis Turner's synonyms were collected from Queensland and New South Wales.[1]

Occurrence data from GBIF shows A. lithophanes occurring in Victoria, and New South Wales.[3]

Meyrick's description

Male & female: 18-19 mm. Head grey-whitish, crown more or less grey. Palpi grey, apex of second joint white, terminal joint ⅔ of second. Antennae, thorax, abdomen, and legs grey; antennal ciliations 4; posterior legs grey-whitish. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa gently arched, apex round-pointed, hindmargin extremely obliquely rounded; shining grey; costa suffused with ochreous-white, in male forming a definite moderate streak: cilia whitish-grey. Hindwings broad-lanceolate, round-pointed, veins 3 and 4 from a point; grey; cilia light grey.
Deloraine, Tasmania; two specimens in November.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Australian Faunal Directory: Antipterna lithophanes". biodiversity.org.au. Retrieved 23 February 2022.
  2. ^ a b Meyrick, E. (1885). "Description of Australian Micro-lepidoptera. XII. Oecophoridae". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 1. 9 (4): 1045-1082 [1075].
  3. ^ "Antipterna lithophanes". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 23 February 2022.

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