''Aeolanthes ampelurga'' 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

Depressariidae Depressariidae is a family of moths. It was formerly treated as a subfamily of Gelechiidae, but is now recognised as a separate family, comprising about 2,300 species worldwide. Subfamilies Depressariidae consists of ten subfamilies: * Acriinae ...

. 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 1925. It is found in northern

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(Kumaon). The

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is about 24 mm. The forewings are pale ochreous-yellowish, irregularly tinged pale rosy with three or four small yellow-whitish spots and some irregular ferruginous marking on the basal area. There is an irregular rather curved transverse ferruginous line with some raised dark fuscous scales in the disc from the costa before one-third not reaching the dorsum, followed by two small yellow-whitish spots on the lower portion, and a yellow whitish ferruginous-edged oblique trapezoidal blotch from the costa, beyond this a yellow-whitish ferruginous-edged round spot in the disc and a broad triangular light purplish-rosy costal patch with the apex extended around the discal spot. There are two ferruginous waved-dentate lines towards the termen, the first marked with some dark fuscous scales in the disc, the second tending to enclose small yellow-whitish terminal spots, a pale rosy marginal line irrorated dark fuscous around the apex and termen. The hindwings are light grey.''Exotic Microlepidoptera'' 3 (5-7): 146

References

Moths described in 1925 Aeolanthinae {{Depressariidae-stub