Anacampsis kearfottella

Anacampsis kearfottella is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by August Busck in 1903. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded in Kentucky, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.[1][2]

Anacampsis kearfottella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Gelechiidae
Genus: Anacampsis
Species:
A. kearfottella
Binomial name
Anacampsis kearfottella
(Busck, 1903)
Synonyms
  • Aproaerema kearfottella Busck, 1903

The wingspan is about 12 mm. The forewings are silvery white at the base, gradually becoming overlaid with fuscous outward. The outer half of the wing is dark fuscous with a silver-yellowish lustre. At the end of the cell is a small round black dot. At the beginning of the costal cilia is a short oblique triangular light yellow spot and there is a heavy deep black line at the base of the cilia, around the entire apical edge, interrupted by four costal and three dorsal short indistinct yellowish-white dashes, which are faintly continued out in the dark fuscous cilia. The dorsal edge opposite the costal triangular spot is yellowish. The hindwings are dark fuscous, nearly black, with silvery reflections.[3]

References
  1. "Anacampsis Curtis, 1827" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved July 6, 2017.
  2. Moth Photographers Group
  3. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 25 (1304): 842


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