''Aeolanthes dicraea'' 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 w ...

in 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 was described by

Edward Meyrick Edward Meyrick (25 November 1854, in Ramsbury – 31 March 1938, at Thornhanger, Marlborough) was an English schoolmaster and amateur entomologist. He was an expert on microlepidoptera and some consider him one of the founders of modern m ...

in 1908. It is found in

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(

Assam Assam (; ) is a state in northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of . The state is bordered by Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh to the north; Nagaland and Manipur ...

). The

wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–200 has a wingspan of , and a wandering albatross (''Diomedea exulans'') caught in 1965 had a wingspan o ...

is 20–22 mm. The forewings are white, towards the costa irregularly suffused with pale yellowish and with the basal third of the costa ferruginous-yellow. There is a ferruginous subcostal dash before the middle and an elongate patch of yellow suffusion in the middle of the disc, as well as a reddish-brown dorsal patch extending from the base to near the tornus, and reaching nearly half across the wing, containing a triangular dark reddish-brown dorsal spot at three-fourths, partially whitish-edged. There is a ferruginous-yellow suffusion along the posterior half of the costa, with a black mark beneath it near the apex and veins 5 and 6 are marked with reddish-brown lines becoming blackish posteriorly, vein 4 less distinctly lined with brownish, between veins 5-7 two light ferruginous-brown streaks, sometimes partially yellowish-suffused, between 4 and 5 a yellowish streak, and on tornus a deep yellow elongate patch. There is also a fine blackish line along the termen. The hindwings are grey, the apex sometimes suffused with whitish-yellowish.''Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society'' 18 (3): 637

References

Moths described in 1908 Aeolanthinae {{Depressariidae-stub