Anarsia amegarta

Anarsia amegarta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Gelechiidae
Genus:	Anarsia
Species:	A. amegarta
Binomial name
	Anarsia amegarta; Meyrick, 1933

Anarsia amegarta is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1933.[1] It is found in Indonesia (Java).[2]

The wingspan is 8–9 mm. The forewings are whitish, irrorated grey and dark grey and with an elongate blackish-grey spot about the middle of the costa, two small spots or marks on the costa before it, and two or three beyond it. A short blackish longitudinal streak is found above the fold before the middle of the wing, and another on the extremity of the fold, an indistinct dark spot in the disc beyond the latter of these, as well as some small cloudy dark marginal spots around the apex and termen and some dark suffusion on the median area of the dorsum. The hindwings are subhyaline whitish-grey, with the veins suffused dark grey.[3]

The larvae feed on Albizzia species.

References

Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Anarsia amegarta". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 19, 2018.
Anarsia at funet
Exotic Microlep. 4 (12): 360 Archived 2015-09-23 at the Wayback Machine

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[nhm-1] Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Anarsia amegarta". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 19, 2018.

[2] Anarsia at funet

[3] Exotic Microlep. 4 (12): 360 Archived 2015-09-23 at the Wayback Machine