Antaeotricha ceratistes

Antaeotricha ceratistes is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Lord Walsingham in 1912. It is found in Mexico (Guerrero).[1]

Antaeotricha ceratistes
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Depressariidae
Genus: Antaeotricha
Species:
A. ceratistes
Binomial name
Antaeotricha ceratistes
(Walsingham, 1912)
Synonyms
  • Stenoma ceratistes Walsingham, 1912

The wingspan is 19–21 mm. The forewings are pale fawn-grey, with a slight brownish tinge, the costal third dirty whitish, widening outwardly to the middle of the termen, but traversed by diffused lines of pale fawn-brownish scales, following the neuration beyond the end of the cell. At the end of the cell is a small brownish fuscous spot, a narrow elongate spot of the same colour placed in the middle of the fold, and a faint indication of two or three brownish fuscous dots on the lower part of the termen. The hindwings are very pale brownish grey, with a tuft of long ochreous hair-scales near the base of the costa on the upperside in the males.[2]

References
  1. Antaeotricha Zeller, 1854 at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms.
  2. Biologia Centrali-Americana: Lepidoptera Heterocera 4: 159


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