Anarsia nimbosa

Anarsia nimbosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Gelechiidae
Genus:	Anarsia
Species:	A. nimbosa
Binomial name
	Anarsia nimbosa; Meyrick, 1913

Anarsia nimbosa is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1913. It is found in Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe.[1]

The wingspan is 11–14 mm. The forewings are dark grey irregularly sprinkled with white, and strewn with black scales tending to form streaks on the veins and sometimes a cloudy patch of dark suffusion on the fold at one-fourth. There is an elongate cloudy blackish spot on the middle of the costa and a shorter one preceding it, tending to coalesce and merge in a very undefined triangular patch of dark suffusion extending from the costa to the fold. The hindwings are grey.[2]

References

De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2019). "Anarsia nimbosa 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): 300 – via Sabinet.

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[1] De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2019). "Anarsia nimbosa Meyrick, 1913". Afromoths. Retrieved August 15, 2020.

[2] Meyrick, E. (January 1913). "Descriptions of South African Micro-Lepidoptera: IV Pterophoridae" (PDF). Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 3 (4): 300 – via Sabinet.