''Xylorycta atelactis'' 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

Xyloryctidae Xyloryctidae is a family of moths contained within the superfamily Gelechioidea described by Edward Meyrick in 1890. Most genera are found in the Indo-Australian region. While many of these moths are tiny, some members of the family grow to a win ...

. 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 micr ...

in 1918. It is found on

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. The

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is about 33 mm. The forewings are shining white, with scattered dark fuscous scales and with the costal edge dark fuscous towards the base. There are irregular dark fuscous streaks along the anterior half of the upper margin of the cell, and the posterior half of the lower margin, as well as irregular lines of dark fuscous suffusion along all veins rising from the cell, but not continued to the margin. There is an irregular elongate dark fuscous patch extending along the dorsum from one-fifth to near the tornus, connected in the middle with the anterior extremity of the streak on the lower margin of the cell. There are also some dark fuscous scales on the costa towards the apex. The hindwings are ochreous whitish.Meyrick, Edward (1916–1923)
''Exotic Microlepidoptera''. 2 (7): 197.

References

Xylorycta Moths described in 1918 {{Xyloryctidae-stub