Anarsia pinnata

Anarsia pinnata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Anarsia
Species: A. pinnata
Binomial name
Anarsia pinnata
Meyrick, 1931

Anarsia pinnata is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Meyrick in 1931. It is found in Cameroon.[1]

The wingspan is about 11 mm. The forewings are grey-whitish speckled with fuscous and with six oblique wedge-shaped marks of blackish irroration from the costa between one-third and the apex. There are indistinct dashes of dark grey irroration in the disc at the middle and three-fourth, and towards dorsum before and between these and there is some dark grey irroration towards the termen. The hindwings are grey, thinly scaled and subhyaline in the disc, with the veins and terminal edge dark grey.[2]

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