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Anarsia nimbosa

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Anarsia nimbosa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
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

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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. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.