Anacampsis inquieta

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Anacampsis inquieta
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Anacampsis
Species:
A. inquieta
Binomial name
Anacampsis inquieta
(Meyrick, 1914)
Synonyms
  • Agriastis inquietaMeyrick, 1914

Anacampsis inquieta is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1914. It is found in Guyana. [1]

The wingspan is 15–16 mm. The forewings are pale greyish-ochreous, more or less tinged or suffused with brown, and sprinkled with fuscous and dark fuscous scales and with a dark fuscous elongate dot towards the costa near the base and elongate dark fuscous marks on the costa about the middle and two-thirds. The stigmata are represented by small tufts of dark fuscous or blackish scales suffused with reddish-brown, an additional tuft adjoining the first discal obliquely above and before it, the plical beneath the first discal, an additional tuft beneath the second discal. There is a spot of dark reddish-fuscous suffusion on the dorsum before the tornus and a row of blackish dots around the posterior part of the costa and termen. The hindwings are dark fuscous. [2]

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References

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  2. Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 1914 : 253 PD-icon.svgThis article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .