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 family Gelechiidae. 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]