Protobathra erista

Protobathra erista
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Autostichidae
Genus:	Protobathra
Species:	P. erista
Binomial name
	Protobathra erista; Meyrick, 1916

Protobathra erista is a moth in the family Autostichidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1916. It is found in southern India.[1]

The wingspan is about 20 mm. The forewings are fuscous, more or less irrorated (sprinkled) suffusedly with dark fuscous and with cloudy dark fuscous 8-shaped spots in the disk before and beyond the middle representing the stigmata. In one specimen, the discal area all round these is wholly suffused with white, extending broadly to the costa and the dorsum beyond the middle, and there is a patch of white suffusion towards the basal portion of the dorsum, and an irregular suffused white subterminal fascia, in the other specimen these white areas are only indicated by some irregular white irroration. The hindwings are fuscous, paler anteriorly.[2]

References

Savela, Markku, ed. (December 8, 2013). "Protobathra erista Meyrick, 1916". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved September 9, 2020.
Meyrick, Edward (1912–1916). Exotic Microlepidoptera. 1 (19): 595.

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[1] Savela, Markku, ed. (December 8, 2013). "Protobathra erista Meyrick, 1916". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved September 9, 2020.

[2] Meyrick, Edward (1912–1916). Exotic Microlepidoptera. 1 (19): 595.