Odites thesmia is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1917. It is found in Madagascar.[1][2]

Odites thesmia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Depressariidae
Genus: Odites
Species:
O. thesmia
Binomial name
Odites thesmia
Meyrick, 1917

The wingspan is about 17 mm. The forewings are grey whitish irrorated with grey. The stigmata are black, the plical obliquely beyond the first discal. There is an angulated series of small blackish dots from beneath two-thirds of the costa to above the tornus and an almost marginal series of blackish dots along the termen. The hindwings are whitish.[3]

References edit

  1. ^ "Odites Walsingham, 1891" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms.
  2. ^ Afro Moths
  3. ^ Exotic Microlepidoptera 2 (2): 57  This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.