Anarsia nimbosa

Anarsia nimbosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Anarsia
Species: A. nimbosa
Binomial name
Anarsia nimbosa
Meyrick, 1913

Anarsia nimbosa is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Meyrick in 1913. It is found in Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe.[1]

The wingspan is 11–14 mm. The forewings are dark grey irregularly sprinkled with white, and strewn with black scales tending to form streaks on the veins and sometimes a cloudy patch of dark suffusion on the fold at one-fourth. There is an elongate cloudy blackish spot on the middle of the costa and a shorter one preceding it, tending to coalesce and merge in a very undefined triangular patch of dark suffusion extending from the costa to the fold. The hindwings are grey.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Afro Moths
  2. ↑ Meyrick, E. 1913b. Descriptions of South African Micro-Lepidoptera. IV – Annals of the Transvaal Museum 3(4): 300


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