Anarsia dryinopa

Anarsia dryinopa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Gelechiidae
Genus:	Anarsia
Species:	A. dryinopa
Binomial name
	Anarsia dryinopa; Lower, 1897[1]
Synonyms
	Anarsia trichodeta Meyrick, 1904; Izatha griseata Hudson, 1939[2];

Anarsia dryinopa is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is known from Australia and the warmer regions of New Zealand in both the North and the South Islands.

The wingspan is 14–17 mm (0.55–0.67 in). The forewings are rather dark fuscous, irregularly irrorated (speckled) with white and with several small undefined dark spots on the costa. There are numerous scattered undefined dots and dashes of black scales irrorated with whitish. The hindwings are fuscous, thinly scaled and semitransparent towards base, darker posteriorly.[3]

The larvae have been recorded feeding on the phyllodes and in galls on Acacia species in Australia, and in New Zealand they have been reared from the foliage of Acacia longifolia, Acacia melanoxylon and Albizzia julibrissin.

References

Australian Faunal Directory
Fauna of New Zealand – Izatha (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea: Oecophoridae) Archived 2011-07-24 at the Wayback Machine
Meyrick, E. (1904). "Descriptions of Australian Micro-Lepidoptera". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 29 (part II [number 114]): 417. Retrieved 17 June 2020 – via Internet Archive.

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[1] Australian Faunal Directory

[2] Fauna of New Zealand – Izatha (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea: Oecophoridae) Archived 2011-07-24 at the Wayback Machine

[3] Meyrick, E. (1904). "Descriptions of Australian Micro-Lepidoptera". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 29 (part II [number 114]): 417. Retrieved 17 June 2020 – via Internet Archive.