Anarsia hippocoma

Anarsia hippocoma
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Anarsia
Species: A. hippocoma
Binomial name
Anarsia hippocoma
Meyrick, 1921

Anarsia hippocoma is a moth of the Gelechiidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1921. It is found in Queensland.[1]

The wingspan is about 11 mm. The forewings are dark fuscous, slightly speckled with grey-whitish and with irregularly scattered coarse black scales. There are eight or nine small dark spots along the costa separated by pale irroration and there is an oblique transverse blackish streak at about one-fourth of the wing, not reaching the margins. The hindwings are grey.[2]

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