Odites microbolista

Odites microbolista is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1937. It is found in Uganda.[1][2]

Odites microbolista
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Depressariidae
Genus:
Odites
Species:
O. microbolista
Binomial name
Odites microbolista
Meyrick, 1937

The wingspan is about 22 mm. The forewings are brownish grey, with the costa narrowly suffused darker and with a black dot on the dorsum towards the base. There are two small adjacent black spots and some scattered black scales beneath the costa at three-fourths, three or four separate black dots indicating an excurved subterminal series beyond this. There is also a terminal series of minute black dots. The hindwings are light grey.

The larvae feed on Coffea species, rolling the leaves of their host plant.[3]

References
  1. "Odites Walsingham, 1891" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms.
  2. Afro Moths
  3. Exotic Microlepidoptera 5 (4-5): 152 Archived March 4, 2016, at the Wayback Machine


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