Anarsia semnopa

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

Anarsia semnopa is a moth of the Gelechiidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1921. It is found in Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe.[1]

The wingspan is 11-14 mm. The forewings are pale grey suffusedly irrorated 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 with violet-blue iridescence.[2]

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