Chlamydastis orion

Chlamydastis orion is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by August Busck in 1920. It is found in Guatemala and Colombia.[1]

Chlamydastis orion
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Depressariidae
Genus:
Chlamydastis
Species:
C. orion
Binomial name
Chlamydastis orion
(Busck, 1920)
Synonyms
  • Stenoma orion Busck, 1920
  • Ptilogenes rufispinis Meyrick, 1932

The wingspan is about 22 mm. The forewings are brownish-ochreous with a suffused white patch occupying the dorsal half from the base to the middle, and extending at the base to the costa. There is an oblique dark brown spot from the costa at one-third and an irregular ill-defined dark brown postmedian fascia, obtusely angulated above the middle. A broader curved light indigo-grey fascia is found from three-fourths of the costa to the tornus, becoming narrow and blackish-grey towards the costa, enclosing a small pale bluish spot above the middle, and cut below the middle by a very acute finely white-edged red-brown wedge from a short red-brown streak along the lower part of the termen. There is also some dark brown suffusion and blackish spots around the apex. The apical and terminal edge are interruptedly marked white. The hindwings are dark grey.[2]

References
  1. "Chlamydastis Meyrick, 1916" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms.
  2. Description of Ptilogenes rufispinis in Exotic Microlepidoptera 4 (10): 305


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