Anarsia semnopa
Anarsia semnopa is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1921. It is found in Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe.[1]
| Anarsia semnopa | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gelechiidae |
| Genus: | Anarsia |
| Species: | A. semnopa |
| Binomial name | |
| Anarsia semnopa Meyrick, 1921 | |
The wingspan is 11–14 mm. The forewings are pale grey suffusedly irrorated (sprinkled) with white, with a few scattered black scales and a black dot on the base of the costa, as well as slight strigulae before and beyond one-fourth. There is a semi-oval blackish spot on the middle of the costa and an oblique blackish spot in the disc somewhat before this, resting on a streak of grey suffusion mixed with blackish along the fold to near the extremity, connected with the dorsum by suffused spots before the middle and at four-fifth. There is an elongate black mark in the disc at three-fourth and a small grey spot on the costa above this, as well as a streak of grey suffusion along the termen, mixed with blackish on the tornus. The hindwings are grey, anteriorly thinly scaled and subhyaline (almost glass like) with violet-blue iridescence.[2]
References
- De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2019). "Anarsia semnopa Meyrick, 1921". Afromoths. Retrieved August 15, 2020.
- Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 8 (2): 79.