Antaeotricha nimbata is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1925. It is found in Peru.[1]
| Antaeotricha nimbata | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Depressariidae |
| Genus: | Antaeotricha |
| Species: | A. nimbata
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| Binomial name | |
| Antaeotricha nimbata Meyrick, 1925
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The wingspan is about 14 mm. The forewings are grey, the costal area from the base ochreous-whitish attenuated to two-thirds. From just beneath the basal half of the costa is a dense fringe of downwards-directed expansible pale ochreous hairs and there is a cloudy streak of dark grey suffusion extending along the dorsum from near the base to beyond the middle, and a triangular blotch about three-fourths. The stigmata are cloudy and dark fuscous, the plical obliquely beyond the first discal, these rather large, the second discal smaller, a slightly curved dark fuscous line from the middle of the costa to this. Beyond a somewhat sinuate dark fuscous line from costa at three-fourths to the tornus, the posterior area is grey-whitish and there is a large blackish apical dot, and three smaller marginal on each side of it. The hindwings are dark fuscous with a whitish-ochreous expansible subcostal hairpencil from the base to two-thirds.[2]
References edit
- ^ "Antaeotricha Zeller, 1854" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms.
- ^ Exotic Microlepidoptera 3 (5-7): 175
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