Araeostoma aenicta

Araeostoma aenicta
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Xyloryctidae
Genus: Araeostoma
Turner, 1917
Species: A. aenicta
Binomial name
Araeostoma aenicta
Turner, 1917

Araeostoma aenicta is a moth in the Xyloryctidae family, and the only species in the genus Araeostoma. It was described by Turner in 1917 and is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Queensland[1] and New South Wales.

The wingspan is 17-28 mm. The forewings are fuscous with patchy whitish irroration and a dark fuscous discal dot above the middle at one-third and a second obliquely elongate before two-thirds. The posterior third of the costal edge is whitish with four dark fuscous dots and with a fine crenulate whitish line just before the termen. The hindwings are fuscous.[2]

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