''Aeolanthes lychnidias'' 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 southern

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. The

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is about 22 mm. The forewings are pale whitish-yellowish with the basal area mixed with brown, with an orange tuft near the base in the middle, and a larger brown tuft mixed with dark fuscous near the dorsum. Beyond this, there is a broad undefined fascia of blackish and whitish irroration from one-third of the costa to the middle of the dorsum, the costal projecting scales mixed with pale rosy. A subovate white spot is found in the disc beyond the middle outlined with black irroration and centred with a yellow spot. Beyond this is a trapezoidal patch of whitish and black irroration, of which one angle rests on the costa beyond the middle and one projects strongly towards the apex. The apical area beyond this is ferruginous-brown, including a white apical spot produced along the termen, its anterior edge rosy-tinged. There is also a tornal patch of ground colour partially tinged with pale rosy. The hindwings are pale yellowish.''Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society'' 18 (3): 638

References

Moths described in 1908 Aeolanthinae {{Depressariidae-stub