Antaeotricha ophrysta

Antaeotricha ophrysta is a moth of the family Depressariidae. It is found in Suriname.[1]

Antaeotricha ophrysta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Depressariidae
Genus:	Antaeotricha
Species:	A. ophrysta
Binomial name
Antaeotricha ophrysta Meyrick, 1912

The wingspan is about 25 mm. The forewings are white with a suffused grey streak along the basal third of the costa and a very faint transverse dorsal patch of pale grey suffusion before the middle, as well as a spot of pale grey suffusion on the dorsum beyond the middle and a moderately broad curved light grey fascia from beneath the middle of the costa to the tornus. The second discal stigma is blackish, closely preceding this and there is a series of four grey spots confluent on the margin traversing the apex. The hindwings are white, the apical half light grey and with an expansible fringe of long ochreous-whitish hairs extending along vein 8 from the base to two-thirds of the wing, the vein strongly sinuate beyond this. The costa with long projecting rough grey and whitish scales from the base to three-fourths.[2]

References

1. "Antaeotricha Zeller, 1854" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
2. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1911 (4): 708