Anarsia sagittaria | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Gelechiidae |
Genus: | Anarsia |
Species: | A. sagittaria |
Binomial name | |
Anarsia sagittaria Meyrick, 1914 |
Anarsia sagittaria is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1914. It is found in Bengal.
The wingspan is 13–15 mm. The forewings are light fuscous, slightly sprinkled with ochreous whitish and with some scattered black scales here and there on the veins, as well as a black streak along the submedian fold, strong on the basal half, attenuated posteriorly. There is a blackish mark beneath this at the base, a slender black longitudinal streak in the disc from before the middle to three-fourths, reduced to scattered scales posteriorly. There is a slender subdorsal streak of black sprinkles from one-fourth to three-fourths. The hindwings are grey, paler and thinly scaled anteriorly.
References
- Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Anarsia sagittaria". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 19, 2018.
- Savela, Markku, ed. (February 10, 2019). "Anarsia sagittaria Meyrick, 1914". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 15, 2020.
- Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 22 (4): 774. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
Taxon identifiers | |
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Anarsia sagittaria |
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