''Prothamnodes bathocentrella'' 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 ...

in the family

Xyloryctidae Xyloryctidae is a family of moths contained within the superfamily Gelechioidea described by Edward Meyrick in 1890. Most genera are found in the Indo-Australian region. While many of these moths are tiny, some members of the family grow to a w ...

. It is found in eastern

Madagascar Madagascar (; mg, Madagasikara, ), officially the Republic of Madagascar ( mg, Repoblikan'i Madagasikara, links=no, ; french: République de Madagascar), is an island country in the Indian Ocean, approximately off the coast of East Africa ...

(Maraonasetra). The wingspan is 31 mm, the length of the forewings 14.5mm that are beige-ochreous with some rusty-brown irrorations.Viette, P. 1968g. Descriptions de nouvelles espèces de Microlépidoptères de Madagascar et de l'île Marion. - Bulletin mensuel de la Société linnéenne de Lyon 37(2):83–91.

References

Xyloryctidae Moths described in 1968 {{Xyloryctidae-stub