Metachanda astrapias

{{short description|Species of moth in genus Metachanda}}

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| taxon = Metachanda astrapias

| authority = (Meyrick, 1887)[http://www.afromoths.net/species_by_code/METAASTR afromoths.net]

| synonyms =

• Ancylometis astrapias Meyrick

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Metachanda astrapias is a moth species in the oecophorine tribe Metachandini. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1887. It is known from Mauritius, which is its type locality.{{cite web |last1=Savela |first1=Markku |title=Metachanda |url=http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/gelechioidea/oecophoridae/oecophorinae/metachanda/ |website=ftp.funet.fi |accessdate=21 June 2018}}

This species has a wingspan of 12mm for the male. Its head and palpi are whitish-ochreous, antennae dark fuscous. Thorax is whitish-ochreous, abdomen light grey, anal tuft whitish-ochreous. The forewings are elongated, narrow with a gently arched costa. They are fuscous with a pale greyish-ochreous median longitudinal streak from the base, margined beneath by a blackish streak and above by a cloudy blackish dot. The hindwings are grey, more thinly scaled towards the base.[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/48720#page/312/mode/1up Meyrick, E. 1887b. Descriptions of some exotic Micro-Lepidoptera. - Transactions of the entomological Society of London 1887(2):269–280.] (on page 278)