Odites metaclista

Odites metaclista
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Depressariidae
Genus:	Odites
Species:	O. metaclista
Binomial name
Odites metaclista Meyrick, 1915

Odites metaclista is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1915. It is found in Madagascar, South Africa and Zimbabwe. ^{[1] [2]}

The wingspan is 14–15 mm. The forewings are light ochreous yellowish with a dark fuscous mark on the base of the costa. The stigmata are dark fuscous, the plical obliquely beyond the first discal, somewhat nearer the second, the second discal lying on the anterior edge of a rather oblique postmedian fuscous fascia, whose posterior edge is excavated above the middle. There is a cloudy fuscous patch resting on the upper half of the termen and there is a pre-marginal series of dark fuscous dots around the apical part of the costa and termen. The hindwings are ochreous whitish, tinged with grey posteriorly. ^[3]

References

1. "Odites Walsingham, 1891" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms.
2. Afro Moths
3. Exotic Microlepidoptera 1 (12): 379 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .