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Hastamea argentidorsella

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Depressariidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Hastamea Busck, 1940

Hastamea argentidorsella is a moth in the Depressariidae family, and the only species in the genus Hastamea. It was described by Busck in 1911 and is found in Brazil (Paraná).

The wingspan is 16–18 mm. The forewings are light yellowish brown, lightest along the costa. The dorsum, from the base nearly to the tornus, is silvery white, this colour reaching up beyond the fold in an ill-defined triangle just beyond the middle of the wing. This dorsal white is broken by a dark brown spot, reaching from the upper dark part of the wing to the dorsal edge before the middle of the wing, and by a group of deep blackish brown scales at the apical third. The hindwings are light yellowish fuscous.

References

Hastamea argentidorsella Wikipedia