Anarsia pinnata
Anarsia pinnata is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1931. It is found in Cameroon.[1]
| Anarsia pinnata | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gelechiidae |
| Genus: | Anarsia |
| Species: | A. pinnata |
| Binomial name | |
| Anarsia pinnata Meyrick, 1931 | |
The wingspan is about 11 mm. The forewings are grey whitish speckled with fuscous and with six oblique wedge-shaped marks of blackish irroration (speckles) from the costa between one-third and the apex. There are indistinct dashes of dark grey irroration in the disc at the middle and three-fourth, and towards dorsum before and between these and there is some dark grey irroration towards the termen. The hindwings are grey, thinly scaled and subhyaline (almost glass like) in the disc, with the veins and terminal edge dark grey.[2]
References
- De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2019). "Anarsia pinnata Meyrick, 1931". Afromoths. Retrieved August 15, 2020.
- Exotic Microlepidoptera. 4 (12): 69. Archived 2015-09-23 at the Wayback Machine
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