Elachista Antonia
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''Elachista antonia'' is a
moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...
of the family
Elachistidae The Elachistidae (grass-miner moths) are a family of small moths in the superfamily Gelechioidea. Some authors lump about 3,300 species in eight subfamilies here, but this arrangement almost certainly results in a massively paraphyletic and comp ...
. It is found on
Crete Crete ( el, Κρήτη, translit=, Modern: , Ancient: ) is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the 88th largest island in the world and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus, ...
. The length of the forewings is 2.8–3.8 mm. The forewing costa is narrowly dark grey basally, the ground colour consisting of ochreous, slightly darker tipped scales. There are shorter grey fringe scales distally, forming an indistinct fringe line. The hindwings are pale grey., 2007, ''Zootaxa'' 1629: 1-25

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Elachista, antonia Moths described in 2007 Moths of Europe {{Elachista-stub