Antipterna diclethra

Antipterna diclethra
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Oecophoridae
Genus:	Antipterna
Species:	A. diclethra
Binomial name
Antipterna diclethra (Meyrick, 1885)
Synonyms [1]
Ocystola diclethraMeyrick, 1885Machaeretis niphoessaTurner, 1940

Antipterna diclethra is a species of moth in the family Oecophoridae, first described by Edward Meyrick in 1885 as Ocystola diclethra. ^{[1] [2]} Lectotypes for both Ocystola diclethra and Machaeretis niphoessa were both collected in greater Sydney, New South Wales . ^[1]

Meyrick's description

Male & Female: 10-13 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, and thorax white; second joint of palpi externally grey on lower half, terminal joint ⅔ of second; antennal ciliations 2½. Abdomen light grey. Legs dark grey, posterior pair ochreous-whitish. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa gently arched, apex acute, hindmargin slightly sinuate, extremely oblique; snow-white; markings bright yellow-ochreous, more or less irrorated with dark fuscous; two small round generally confluent spots transversly placed in disc before middle, lower slightly anterior; a rather narrow fascia from ⅔ of costa to ¾ of inner margin, narrowly produced along inner margin to beneath anterior spots, and more broadly along costa to near apex, and connected below middle by a short slender bar with anal angle: cilia ochreous-whitish, suffused with ochreous and sometimes irrorated with dark fuscous between apex and anal angle. Hind-wings lanceolate, acute, veins 3 and 4 somewhat remote; light grey; cilia very pale greyish-ochreous.
Sydney, New South Wales; not uncommon from October to December. ^[2]

Further reading

• Ian F. B. Common (1994). Oecophorinae Genera of Australia I—the Wingia group (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae). Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing. p. i-xvi, 1-390. ISBN   0-643-05524-X. OL   21080057M. Wikidata   Q110980740.

References

1. "Australian Faunal Directory: Antipterna diclethra". biodiversity.org.au. Retrieved 22 February 2022.
2. Meyrick, E. (1885). "Description of Australian Micro-lepidoptera. XII. Oecophoridae". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 1. 9 (4): 1045–1082 [1079].