Anchinia oenochares is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1924. It is found in South Africa[1] and Zimbabwe.[2]

Anchinia oenochares
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Oecophoridae
Genus: Anchinia
Species:
A. oenochares
Binomial name
Anchinia oenochares
Meyrick, 1924

The wingspan is 15–17 mm. The forewings are white, with some scattered grey, purplish, and dark fuscous scales and a short slender streak of ferruginous suffusion from the base beneath the costa, as well as some grey sprinkles along the anterior half of the costa, and a darker grey oblique spot at one-fourth. The first plical stigma is round, grey, and sprinkled with blackish, the plical linear, rather before this and there is a purplish fascia suffusedly sprinkled with dark grey or dark fuscous from the middle of the costa to the middle of the dorsum, slightly angulated near the costa, interrupted in the middle by a blotch of ferruginous suffusion. A purplish fascia, suffusedly sprinkled with dark fuscous from three-fourths of the costa to near the dorsum before the tornus, is dilated posteriorly towards the costa, and preceded in the middle by a ferruginous spot. The terminal area beyond this is suffused with ferruginous rosy and there is a marginal series of blackish dots around the posterior part of the costa and termen. The hindwings are pale grey, with the veins grey.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Savela, Markku, ed. (December 30, 2018). "Anchinia oenochares Meyrick, 1924". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 15, 2020.
  2. ^ De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2019). "Anchinia oenochares Meyrick, 1924". Afromoths. Retrieved August 15, 2020.
  3. ^ Exotic Microlepidoptera. 3 (4): 100.   This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.