Anarsia melanoplecta
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| Anarsia melanoplecta Meyrick, 1914
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Anarsia melanoplecta is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Meyrick in 1914.[1] It is found in India (Bengal).[2]
The wingspan is about 10 mm. The forewings are fuscous finely irrorated with whitish and with an obscure darker blotch in the disc about one-fifth and a thick black oblique streak from the middle of the costa, reaching half across the wing. There is a semi-oval black spot on the costa at four-fifths and a black pre-apical dot, preceded by whitish, the area above and below it tinged with ochreous. The hindwings are grey.
The larvae have been recorded boring into the shoots of Mangifera indica.[3]
References
- ^ "LepIndex". nhm.ac.uk. Retrieved 2015-06-03.
- ^ Anarsia at funet
- ^ J. Bombay nat. hist. Soc. 22 (4): 774