Anarsia isogona

Anarsia isogona is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1913. It is found in Japan (Honshu, Kyushu),[1] China (Zhejiang, Yunnan), Taiwan and southern India.[2]

Anarsia isogona
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Anarsia
Species:
A. isogona
Binomial name
Anarsia isogona
Meyrick, 1913
Synonyms
  • Ananarsia isogona

The wingspan is about 12 mm. The forewings are greyish ochreous sprinkled with whitish, with some scattered fuscous and blackish scales and with several slight blackish marks on the costa. There is a triangular blackish blotch occupying the median fourth of the costa and reaching more than halfway across the wing. There are also obscure small spots of dark fuscous suffusion in the disc towards the base, near the dorsum at one-fourth, on the dorsum at three-fourths and at the tornus. The hindwings are grey, becoming hyaline (glass like) anteriorly.[3]

The larvae feed on Schima species.

References
  1. "ヒメマエモンハイキバガ Anarsia isogona Meyrick, 1913". みんなで作る日本産蛾類図鑑 [An Identification Guide of Japanese Moths Compiled by Everyone] (in Japanese). Retrieved August 15, 2020.
  2. Ponomarenko, M. G. (October–November 1997). "Catalogue of the Subfamily Dichomeridinae (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae) of the Asia" (PDF). Far Eastern Entomologist. 50: 1–67. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 20, 2013.
  3. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 22 (1): 169.


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