Antipterna homoleuca

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Antipterna homoleuca
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Oecophoridae
Genus: Antipterna
Species:
A. homoleuca
Binomial name
Antipterna homoleuca
(Meyrick, 1885)
Synonyms [1]

Ocystola homoleucaMeyrick, 1885
Ocystola argophanesTurner, 1940

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Antipterna homoleuca is a species of moth in the family Oecophoridae, first described by Edward Meyrick in 1885 as Ocystola homoleuca. [1] [2] The lectotype for Ocystola homoleuca was collected at Wirrabara, South Australia, while that for Ocystola argophanes was collected in Brisbane, Queensland. [1]

Meyrick's description

Male & female: 10-15 mm. Head and thorax white, faintly ochreous-tinged. Palpi white, anterior edge somewhat grey, terminal joint ⅔ of second. Antennae whitish, ciliations 5. Abdomen ochreous-whitish. Legs dark grey, posterior pair ochreous-whitish. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa moderately arched, apex acute, hindmargin extremely obliquely rounded; shining white; inner margin narrowly and slightly tinged with greyish-ochreous: cilia white, on anal angle somewhat greyish-ochreous. Hindwings broad-lanceolate, acute, veins 3 and 4 from a point or very slightly remote; light grey; cilia ochreous-grey-whitish.

Closely allied to 0. monostropha , but always smaller, with the thorax white, the grey suffusion of forewings hardly perceptible, and veins 3 and 4 of the hindwings hardly or not remote.

Sydney and Bathurst (2300 feet). New South Wales; Wirrabara Forest, South Australia; six specimens in October and November. [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Australian Faunal Directory: Antipterna homoleuca". biodiversity.org.au. Retrieved 23 February 2022.
  2. 1 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 [1076].