Anarsia ulmarata

Anarsia ulmarata is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by John David Bradley in 1961.[1] It is found on Guadalcanal.[2]

Anarsia ulmarata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Anarsia
Species:
A. ulmarata
Binomial name
Anarsia ulmarata
Bradley, 1961

The wingspan is about 10 mm. The forewings are sordid white diffusedly irrorated (sprinkled) with fuscous and with a sprinkling of scattered blackish scales, some forming a blackish dash in the plical fold near the middle of the cell. A similar dash is found at the end of the cell and a third between this and the termen.[3]

References

  1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Anarsia ulmarata". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 17, 2018.
  2. Anarsia at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  3. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Entomology) 10 (4): 134


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