Metachanda astrapias

Metachanda astrapias
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Gelechioidea
Family: Oecophoridae (disputed)
Subfamily: Oecophorinae
Genus: Metachanda
Species: M. astrapias
Binomial name
Metachanda astrapias
(Meyrick), 1887[1]
Synonyms
  • Ancylometis astrapias Meyrick

Metachanda astrapias is a species of moth in the family Oecophoridae. It is known from Mauritius.

This species has a wingspan of 12mm for the male. Its head and palpi are whitish-ochreous, antennae dark fuscous. Thorax is whitish-ochreous, abdomen light grey, anal tuft whitish-ochreous. The forewings are elongated, narrow with a gently arched costa. They are fuscous with a pale greyish-ochreous median longitudinal streak from the base, margined beneath by a blackish streak and above by a cloudy blackish dot. The hindwings are grey, more thinly scaled towards the base.[2]

References

  1. ↑ afromoths.net
  2. ↑ Meyrick, E. 1887b. Descriptions of some exotic Micro-Lepidoptera. - Transactions of the entomological Society of London 1887(2):269–280. (on page 278)
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