''Chlamydastis obnupta'' 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 ...
of the family
Depressariidae
Depressariidae is a family of moths. It has formerly been treated as a subfamily of Gelechiidae, but is now recognised as a separate family, comprising about 2,300 species worldwide.Heikkilä, M. ''et al''. 2014: Morphology reinforces proposed mo ...
. It is found in
French Guiana
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.
The
wingspan
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is 21 mm for males and 24 mm for females. The forewings are white, irregularly sprinkled and in the disc and suffusedly mixed with greenish-grey. There are reddish-brown blotches on the costa at the base and one-third, reaching half across the wing, partially suffused together. There are three blackish marks on the costa from one-fourth to the middle. The stigmata are small, raised and blackish, the plical rather obliquely beyond the first discal, these followed by some dark grey suffusion confluent with the second blotch, the second discal transverse. There is a reddish-brown streak along the costa from three-fifths, enlarged into a blotch towards the apex, its costal edge interruptedly dark fuscous. An irregular transverse dark grey mark is found before the middle of the termen and there is also an interrupted dark fuscous terminal line. The hindwings are light grey.
''Exotic Microlepidoptera'' 1 (16): 483
References
Moths described in 1916
Chlamydastis
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