Chlamydastis forcipata

Chlamydastis forcipata is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1913. It is found in Colombia.[1]

Chlamydastis forcipata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Depressariidae
Genus:
Chlamydastis
Species:
C. forcipata
Binomial name
Chlamydastis forcipata
(Meyrick, 1913)
Synonyms
  • Agriophara forcipata Meyrick, 1913

The wingspan is about 23 mm. The forewings are white, sprinkled with brown and a few black scales and with brown costal spots at one-fifth and two-fifths, and a larger one at three-fourths. A small subcostal tuft of black and brown scales is found beyond the first of these and there is a brown median longitudinal streak from the base to the end of the cell, where it expands into a brown cloud surrounding posteriorly the blackish white-centred second discal stigma, the first discal stigma black, placed on the upper edge of this streak. There is a rather irregular series of indistinct blackish dots suffused with brown from the third costal spot to before the tornus, and a row of more distinct blackish dots near the termen. The hindwings are ochreous-whitish.[2]

References
  1. Chlamydastis at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms.
  2. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1913 (1): 183


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