Antaeotricha pythonaea

Antaeotricha pythonaea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Depressariidae
Genus:	Antaeotricha
Species:	A. pythonaea
Binomial name
	Antaeotricha pythonaea; Meyrick, 1916

Antaeotricha pythonaea is a moth of the family Depressariidae. It is found in French Guiana.[1]

The wingspan is about 22 mm. The forewings are deep shining bronze-green, with suffused light indigo-bluish markings, consisting of irregular suffusion in the basal and median portions of the discal and dorsal areas, a transverse streak between these rising from a flattened-triangular ochreous-white spot on the costa before the middle, and a transverse streak from beneath the costa at three-fourths to the tornus. A leaden-grey line is found around the apex and termen. The hindwings are dark fuscous with the costa rather expanded from the base to two-thirds, with a broad projection of ochreous-whitish scales before the middle, and a long whitish subcostal hair-pencil from the base lying beneath the forewings.[2]

References

"Antaeotricha Zeller, 1854" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
Exotic Microlepidoptera 1 (16): 491

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[1] "Antaeotricha Zeller, 1854" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

[2] Exotic Microlepidoptera 1 (16): 491