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Odites encarsia

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Depressariidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Odites

Odites encarsia is a moth in the Depressariidae family. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1908. It is found in southern India.

The wingspan is 16-17 mm. The forewings are whitish ochreous, some veins indistinctly streaked with pale yellow ochreous and with an oblique patch of pale brownish suffusion from the dorsum near the base to the fold. There is an oblique blackish linear mark crossing the end of the cell, followed by some brownish suffusion tending to extend itself along the veins. The hindwings are ochreous whitish.

References

Odites encarsia Wikipedia