Anarsia ephippias

Anarsia ephippias is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1908. It is found in India and Sri Lanka.

Anarsia ephippias
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Anarsia
Species:
A. ephippias
Binomial name
Anarsia ephippias
Meyrick, 1908

This wingspan is 11–12 mm. The forewings are fuscous, irrorated (sprinkled) with grey whitish, and irregularly sprinkled with dark fuscous. There is a subtriangular dark fuscous spot on the middle of the costa, preceded and followed by two or three indistinct, dark fuscous, oblique strigulae and sometimes five or six irregular blackish marks arranged as fragments of a median longitudinal streak, but these are often little indicated. The hindwings are grey, thinly scaled and subhyaline (almost glass like) towards the base, darker posteriorly.[1]

The larvae feed on Arachis hypogaea (peanuts),[2] Acacia sp., Cajanus cajan, Glycine max, Mangifera indica, Mimosa rubicaulis, Vigna aconitifolia, Vigna mungo and Vigna radiata.[3]

References
  1. Meyrick, 1908. The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine. 44: 197.
  2. Maxwell-Lefroy, H. (1909). "Indian Insect Life: a Manual of the Insects of the Plains". 1-786.
  3. Robinson, Gaden S.; Ackery, Phillip R.; Kitching, Ian J.; Beccaloni, George W. & Hernández, Luis M. (2010). "Search Results "Anarsia ephippias"". HOSTS - A Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants. Natural History Museum, London.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.