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Antaeotricha hyalophanta

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Depressariidae

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Antaeotricha

Antaeotricha hyalophanta is a moth in the Depressariidae family. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1932. It is found in Peru.

The wingspan is 17-18 mm. The forewings are brown, darker in males, the veins obscurely lined dark brown. There are two dark fuscous dots transversely placed on the end of the cell and there is a marginal series of dark fuscous dots around the apex and termen. The hindwings are blackish-grey in males, with a hyaline longitudinal space beneath vein lb from near the base to two-thirds. The hindwings of the females are rather dark grey.

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Antaeotricha hyalophanta Wikipedia