Odites dilutella

Odites dilutella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Depressariidae
Genus:	Odites
Species:	O. dilutella
Binomial name
Odites dilutella (Walsingham, 1881)
Synonyms
Cryptolechia dilutellaWalsingham, 1881

Odites dilutella is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Lord Walsingham in 1881. It is found in South Africa. ^{[1] [2]}

The wingspan is about 17 mm. The forewings are pale whitish ochreous, the costa very faintly and narrowly shaded with ochreous and with a small patch of elongated scales on the dorsal margin near the base, forming an appressed tuft, a small fuscous discal spot a little above the middle of the wing at one-fourth from the base, followed by another nearly obsolete spot towards the end of the cell, situated in the middle of a narrow oblique subfuscous shade. Beneath these two, and equidistant from each, is another indistinct spot on the fold. Halfway between the end of the cell and the apex is a semicircular series of almost obsolete fuscous dots running nearly parallel to the margin of the wing, and on the apical margin itself is a series of rather more distinct but scarcely larger dots of the same colour. There is also a very minute fuscous shade on the extreme apex of the costa. The hindwings are pale cinereous. ^[3]

References

1. "Odites Walsingham, 1891" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms.
2. Afro Moths
3. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1881 (2): 255