Ancylometis isophaula

Description

Ancylometis isophaula is a species of moth in the family Oecophoridae. It is known from Madagascar. This species has a wingspan of 10 mm for the male. Head, thorax pale brownish ochreous. Palpi pale brownish ochreous, terminal joint whitish with dark fuscous supramedian ring. Forewings elongate, somewhat dilated, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen obliquely rounded; pale ochreous irregularly sprinkled brownish; a cloudy dark brown dot beneath costa near base; stigmata dark brown, plical hardly beyond first discal, a dark brown dash between discal more or less expressed; some brown suffusion between second discal and costa, apical and terminal area irregularly suffused brown. Cilia: whitish brownish (damaged). Hindwings whitish grey; cilia whitish. This species is allied to Ancylometis scaeocosma.