''Aeolanthes meniscias'' 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 ...

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

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. The

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is about 25 mm. The forewings are pale ochreous-yellowish, whitish-tinged towards the costa in the middle and with the base mixed ferruginous in the middle and towards the costa. There are some ferruginous scales forming a very oblique series from the costa before one-third and there is a lilac-brownish band occupying the dorsal area as far as the cell to the tornus, streaked darker ochreous-brown on the margins of the cell, the fold and the dorsum, the dorsal streak thicker and enlarged before the tornus into a triangular prominence suffused ferruginous. A curved dark ferruginous-brown streak crosses the end of the cell and is prolonged towards the apex, enclosing a fine whitish lunule on the transverse vein, and followed by an ovate pale yellow spot indistinctly edged posteriorly ferruginous-brown. The veins between these markings and the termen are marked with fine dark brown lines and there is a fine dark brown terminal line. The hindwings are light yellowish, the basal third suffused light greyish.Exotic Microlep. 2 (7): 196

References

Moths described in 1918 Aeolanthinae {{Depressariidae-stub