Antaeotricha adjunctella

Antaeotricha adjunctella is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Francis Walker in 1864. It is found in Amazonas in Brazil and in the Guianas.[1]

Antaeotricha adjunctella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Depressariidae
Genus: Antaeotricha
Species:
A. adjunctella
Binomial name
Antaeotricha adjunctella
(Walker, 1864)
Synonyms
  • Cryptolechia adjunctella Walker, 1864
  • Cryptolechia additella Walker, 1864
  • Cryptolechia absconditella Walker, 1864

Adults are pale cinereous (ash-gray) straw colour, the forewings with a fawn-coloured basal patch, which is accompanied by black streaks. There is a black point in the disk beyond the middle and the exterior space is fawn coloured, whitish streaked and traversed by an outward-curved whitish line. The marginal points are black and whitish bordered. The hindwings are whitish, with the exterior part tinged with pale fawn colour.[2]

References
  1. Savela, Markku. "Antaeotricha adjunctella (Walker, 1864)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved February 2, 2018.
  2. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 29: 726


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