''Lecithocera antiphractis'' is a

moth Moths are a group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not Butterfly, butterflies. They were previously classified as suborder Heterocera, but the group is Paraphyly, paraphyletic with respect to butterflies (s ...

in the family

Lecithoceridae The Lecithoceridae, or long-horned moths, are a family of small moths described by Simon Le Marchand in 1947. Although lecithocerids are found throughout the world, the great majority are found in the Indomalayan realm and the southern part of the ...

. It was described by

Edward Meyrick Edward Meyrick (25 November 1854 – 31 March 1938) was an English schoolmaster and amateur entomologist. He was an expert on microlepidoptera and some consider him one of the founders of modern microlepidoptera systematics. Life and work Ed ...

in 1921. It is found in

Assam Assam (, , ) is a state in Northeast India, northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra Valley, Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of . It is the second largest state in Northeast India, nor ...

, India. The

wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the opposite wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–200 has a wingspan of , and a wandering albatross (''Diomedea exulans'') caught in 1965 had a wingsp ...

is about 16 mm. The forewings are yellow ochreous, irregularly sprinkled with fuscous and with a streak of dark fuscous suffusion along the costa from the base to five-sixths. The dorsal edge is suffused with dark fuscous towards the base and the discal stigmata are dark fuscous. There is a narrow suffused dark fuscous terminal fascia, leaving the terminal edge pale ochreous. The hindwings are grey.Meyrick, Edward (1916–1923)
''Exotic Microlepidoptera''. 2 (14): 435.

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Moths described in 1921 antiphractis {{Lecithocera-stub