Pachnistis phaeoptila

Description

Pachnistis phaeoptila is a moth in the Autostichidae family. It was described by John David Bradley in 1961 and is found in Java, Indonesia. The wingspan is about 15 mm. The forewings are warm buff, moderately sprinkled with mummy brown and with a strong dark mummy brown marking at the base of the costa, a similar small dash slightly outwardly oblique of this. There is a bold mummy brown spot in the disc before the middle at about two-fifths, a similar spot slightly obliquely before it in the plical fold, and a third larger spot at the end of the cell. There is also a series of small mummy brown interneural dots along the terminal margin continuing around the apex and along the costa to about three-fifths, the last two or three spots being slightly larger and more widely spaced. There is also a very weak pre-tornal marking and a small mummy brown dash near the base of the inner margin. The hindwings are greyish light buff.