Antaeotricha haesitans is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Lord Walsingham in 1912. It is found in Mexico (Durango) and the United States, where it has been recorded from Texas.[1]
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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. haesitans
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| Antaeotricha haesitans (Walsingham, 1912)
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The wingspan is about 12 mm. The forewings are pale fawn-ochreous, with an oblique fawn-brown line from the commencement of the costal cilia, descending straight to the tornus. A minute spot of the same at the end of the cell, another on the cell halfway between this and the base, a third in the middle of the fold. From the plical spot a line of brown scales descends obliquely outward to the dorsum and is diffused along it nearly to the tornus, but not conspicuously. There are a few small brown dots around the apex and termen at the base of the pale fawn cilia. The hindwings are fawn-brownish.[2]
The larvae feed on Pithecellobium flexicaule.
References edit
- ^ "Antaeotricha Zeller, 1854" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms.
- ^ Biologia Centrali-Americana: Lepidoptera Heterocera 4: 154
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