Anarsia melanoplecta

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Anarsia melanoplecta
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Anarsia
Species:
A. melanoplecta
Binomial name
Anarsia melanoplecta
Meyrick, 1914
Synonyms
  • Hypatima melanoplectaMeyrick, 1914

Anarsia melanoplecta is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1914. [1] It is found in Bengal. [2]

The wingspan is about 10 mm. The forewings are fuscous finely irrorated (sprinkled) with whitish and with an obscure darker blotch in the disc about one-fifth and a thick black oblique streak from the middle of the costa, reaching half across the wing. There is a semi-oval black spot on the costa at four-fifths and a black pre-apical dot, preceded by whitish, the area above and below it tinged with ochreous. The hindwings are grey.

The larvae have been recorded boring into the shoots of Mangifera indica . [3]

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References

  1. ↑ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Hypatima melanoplecta". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index . Natural History Museum . Retrieved May 19, 2018.
  2. ↑ Savela, Markku (February 10, 2019). "Anarsia melanoplecta Meyrick, 1914". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 15, 2020.
  3. ↑ Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 22 (4): 774. PD-icon.svgThis article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .


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