Amolita perstriata is a species of moth

Moth

A moth is an insect closely related to the butterfly, both being of the order Lepidoptera. Moths form the majority of this order; there are thought to be 150,000 to 250,000 different species of moth , with thousands of species yet to be described...

 of the Noctuidae

Noctuidae

The Noctuidae or owlet moths are a family of robustly-built moths that includes more than 35,000 known species out of possibly 100,000 total, in more than 4,200 genera. They constitute the largest family in the Lepidoptera....

 family. It is found on the Bahamas. Its wingspan

Wingspan

The wingspan of an airplane or a bird, is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777 has a wingspan of about ; and a Wandering Albatross caught in 1965 had a wingspan of , the official record for a living bird.The term wingspan, more technically extent, is...

is about 22 mm.

Description

Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous white; palpi pale rufous; fore and mid legs and hind tarsi tinged with brown. Fore wing ochreous white sparsely irrorated with black; a faint brownish fascia in cell; two minute black points iu upper part of middle of cell and two at upper angle; the interspaces of costal area tinged with brown towards apex; a faint diffused brown fascia from terinen below apex to submedian fold where it terminates in a black point; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing white faintly tinged with ochreous. Underside of fore wing and costal area of hind wing tinged with ochreous, the costa and termen of both wings slightly irrorated with brown; both wings with terminal series of black points.