Chlamydastis metamochla

Chlamydastis metamochla
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Depressariidae
Genus: Chlamydastis
Species: C. metamochla
Binomial name
Chlamydastis metamochla
(Meyrick, 1931)
Synonyms
  • Ptilogenes metamochla Meyrick, 1931

Chlamydastis metamochla is a moth in the Depressariidae family. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1931. It is found in Brazil.[1]

The wingspan is about 19 mm. The forewings are white speckled light grey with the markings blackish. There are three short oblique streaks from the costa at one-fifth, two-fifths, and three-fourths, the first longest and nearly reaching the first discal stigma. The first discal stigma dot-like. The second forming a short transverse mark, the plical only indicated by one or two black scales obliquely beyond the first discal. There is a streak from the lower end of the second discal nearly reaching two large dots just before the termen below the middle. The hindwings are pale grey, slightly darker posteriorly.[2]

References

  1. "Chlamydastis Meyrick, 1916" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms.
  2. Exotic Microlepidoptera 4 (1): 45
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