Anarsia epiula
Anarsia epiula is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1904. It is found in New South Wales[1] and Queensland.
Anarsia epiula | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Gelechiidae |
Genus: | Anarsia |
Species: | A. epiula |
Binomial name | |
Anarsia epiula Meyrick, 1904 | |
The wingspan is about 14 mm (0.55 in). The forewings are fuscous, irrorated and towards the costa broadly suffused with white, with a few scattered dark fuscous scales. There are some indistinct oblique dark marks on the costa and with an elongate semi-oval blackish-fuscous spot along the costa in the middle. There is an elongate blackish-fuscous spot in the middle of the disc and a dark fuscous dot in the disc at three-fourth. The hindwings are whitish-fuscous, but paler and semitransparent anteriorly.[2]
References
- Australian Faunal Directory
- Meyrick, E. (1904). "Descriptions of Australian Micro-Lepidoptera". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 29 (part II [number 114]): 418. Retrieved 17 June 2020 – via Internet Archive.
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