Athrinacia trifasciata

Athrinacia trifasciata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Depressariidae
Genus: Athrinacia
Species: A. trifasciata
Binomial name
Athrinacia trifasciata
Walsingham, 1911

Athrinacia trifasciata is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Walsingham in 1911. It is found in Mexico, where it has been recorded from Guerrero.[1]

The wingspan is about 13 mm. The forewings are bright straw-yellow, with three lilac-grey transverse fasciae, each narrowly margined by a darker line. The first, leaving the costa at one-third from the base, is obliquely attenuated downward reverting to the dorsum from the fold and the second, rather wider at about the middle, is outwardly sinuate on the cell. The third, at the commencement of the costal cilia, is moderately straight, but broken and diffused on its outer edge toward the termen, which is marked by a narrow toothed line of pale tawny brown running around the apex. Along the base of the dorsum is a narrow, elongate, lilac-grey streak and between the first and second fasciae is a tawny brown dorsal spot, another lying beyond the end of the cell between the second and third fasciae. The hindwings are pale grey.[2]

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