Biology:Antaeotricha adjunctella

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Short description: Moth species in genus Antaeotricha

Antaeotricha adjunctella
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Depressariidae
Genus: Antaeotricha
Species:
A. adjunctella
Binomial name
Antaeotricha adjunctella
(Walker, 1864)
Synonyms
  • Cryptolechia adjunctella Walker, 1864
  • Cryptolechia additella Walker, 1864
  • Cryptolechia absconditella Walker, 1864

Antaeotricha adjunctella is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Francis Walker in 1864. It is found in Amazonas in Brazil and in the Guianas.[1]

Adults are pale cinereous (ash-gray) straw colour, the forewings with a fawn-coloured basal patch, which is accompanied by black streaks. There is a black point in the disk beyond the middle and the exterior space is fawn coloured, whitish streaked and traversed by an outward-curved whitish line. The marginal points are black and whitish bordered. The hindwings are whitish, with the exterior part tinged with pale fawn colour.[2]

References

Wikidata ☰ Q13376715 entry