''Opogona autogama'' 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

Tineidae Tineidae is a family of moths in the order Lepidoptera described by Pierre André Latreille in 1810. Collectively, they are known as fungus moths or tineid moths. The family contains considerably more than 3,000 species in more than 300 genera. ...

Distribution

It is found in the

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and

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. This species has a wingspan of 12–13 mm, head is purplish-fuscous, tuft brownish-ochreous, fillet and face shining greyish-ochreous. Forewings lanceolate, bronzy-grey or light purplish-fuscous, In male: a long light grey subcostal hairpencil from base lying beneath forewings this character is quite distinctive.Meyrick, 1915. Exotic Microlepidoptera 1.

References

*Original publication
Meyrick, 1911. No. XII. Tortricina and Tineina. Results of the Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to the Indian Ocean in 1905 Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. (2) 14 : 263–307
Moths described in 1911 Opogona {{Tineidae-stub