''Aeolanthes euryatma'' 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
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in 1908. 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 17 mm. The forewings are white, mixed towards the termen with light grey and towards the tornus with pale ochreous yellowish and there are two dark fuscous patches mixed with deep indigo purplish and blackish. The first basal, extending on the costa to beyond one-third and on the dorsum to three-fourths, the outer edge prominent at three-fourths from the costa. The second is subtriangular extending on the costa from the middle to near the apex, its apex almost connected with prominence of the first. There is an interrupted dark fuscous terminal line. The hindwings are pale yellowish, towards the dorsum greyish tinged.
''Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society''. 18 (3): 638.
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References
Moths described in 1908
Aeolanthinae
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