Anacampsis cornifer
Anacampsis cornifer is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Thomas de Grey, in 1897. It is found in the West Indies (St. Croix and St. Thomas).[1]
Anacampsis cornifer | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Gelechiidae |
Genus: | Anacampsis |
Species: | A. cornifer |
Binomial name | |
Anacampsis cornifer Walsingham, 1897 | |
The wingspan is 10–11 mm. The forewings are greyish ochreous, indistinctly speckled with fuscous, a black dot at the extreme base of the costa, two fuscous dots in the fold, two on the discal cell, a slight fuscous costal shade above the end of the cell, followed by a pale ochreous spot, a few fuscous scales lying around the apex and termen. There is a slight greyish suffusion across the middle of the wing, and beyond it from the pale costal spot a curved band, paler than the ground-colour, is indistinctly traceable across the wing. The hindwings are brownish grey.
The larvae have been recorded feeding on Croton flavens.[2]