Taygete altivola

Taygete altivola
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Autostichidae
Genus:	Taygete
Species:	T. altivola
Binomial name
	Taygete altivola; (Meyrick, 1929)
Synonyms
	Epithectis altivola Meyrick, 1929;

Taygete altivola is a moth in the family Autostichidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1929. It is found in Peru.[1]

The wingspan is about 12 mm. The forewings are grey whitish with a dark grey basal patch somewhat mixed with pale ochreous occupying one-fifth of the wing, the edge rather inwards oblique from the costa. There is an elongate grey mark on the costa beyond this and a triangular dark grey blotch somewhat tinged with ochreous on the costa rather beyond the middle reaching more than halfway across the wing, its apex truncate, some slight grey suffusion in the disc preceding this. The stigmata are small and black, the plical suffused with yellowish, rather obliquely before the first discal. There is a small blackish dorsal spot beneath the second discal, and a blackish dot between these. The apical fifth is suffused with grey and ochreous, with some dark fuscous scales, a blackish dash on the tornal edge, dark fuscous marks around the remainder of the edge. The hindwings are grey.[2]

References

Savela, Markku, ed. (February 9, 2015). "Taygete altivola (Meyrick, 1929)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved September 11, 2020.
Exotic Microlepidoptera. 3 (16): 486.

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[1] Savela, Markku, ed. (February 9, 2015). "Taygete altivola (Meyrick, 1929)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved September 11, 2020.

[2] Exotic Microlepidoptera. 3 (16): 486.