''Autosticha bilobella'' 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
Autostichidae
Autostichidae is a family of moths in the moth superfamily Gelechioidea.
Subfamilies
* Autostichinae Le Marchand, 1947
* Deocloninae Hodges, 1998
* Glyphidocerinae Hodges, 1998
*Holcopogoninae
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The Holcopogoninae are a subfamily of m ...
. It was described by Kyu-Tek Park and Chun-Sheng Wu in 2003. It is found in
Guangdong
) means "wide" or "vast", and has been associated with the region since the creation of Guang Prefecture in AD 226. The name "''Guang''" ultimately came from Guangxin ( zh, labels=no, first=t, t= , s=广信), an outpost established in Han dynasty ...
, China.
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 11–12 mm.
[Park, K. T. & Wu, C. S. (2003)]
"A revision of the genus ''Autosticha'' Meyrick (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae) in eastern Asia"
''Insecta Koreana''. 20 (2): 195-225.
References
Moths described in 2003
Autosticha
Moths of Asia
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