Anarsia mitescens is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1913. It is found in South Africa.[1]
| Anarsia mitescens | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gelechiidae |
| Genus: | Anarsia |
| Species: | A. mitescens
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| Binomial name | |
| Anarsia mitescens Meyrick, 1913
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The wingspan is about 13 mm. The forewings are light grey irrorated (sprinkled) with whitish, with a few scattered black scales and an elongate dark grey spot in the middle of the costa, preceded by two small cloudy blackish spots and followed by two others. There is a black dot beneath the costa near the base, one on the fold at two-thirds, one rather large in the disc before the middle, one on the lower edge of the median costal spot, one beneath the costa at two-thirds, one in the disc at two-thirds, one above the dorsum before the tornus, and several small groups of black scales towards the apex. The hindwings are rather dark grey.[2]
References
edit- ^ De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2019). "Anarsia mitescens Meyrick, 1913". Afromoths. Retrieved August 15, 2020.
- ^ Meyrick, E. (January 1913). "Descriptions of South African Micro-Lepidoptera: IV Pterophoridae" (PDF). Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 3 (4): 299 – via Sabinet.
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