Anarsia dryinopa
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gelechiidae |
| Genus: | Anarsia |
| Species: | A. dryinopa
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| Anarsia dryinopa | |
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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.
Taxonomy[edit]
This species was first described in 1897 by Oswald Bertram Lower using a specimen collected at Broken Hill in New South Wales in June.[2] In 2010 Robert Hoare synonymised Izatha griseata with this species.[1]
Description[edit]
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]
Distribution[edit]
This species is native to Australia.[1] It has been introduced to New Zealand and has been observed in the Northland, Auckland and Nelson regions.[1]
Host species[edit]
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.[1]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e f Robert J. B. Hoare (2 September 2010). "Izatha (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea: Oecophoridae)" (PDF). Fauna of New Zealand. 65. Illustrator: Birgit E. Rhode. Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research: 89. doi:10.7931/J2/FNZ.65. ISSN 0111-5383. OCLC 698473812. Wikidata Q44975107. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 February 2021.
- ^ Oswald Lower (6 April 1897). "Descriptions of new Australian Lepidoptera". Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia. 21: 57. ISSN 0372-1426. Wikidata Q104889230.
- ^ E. Meyrick (1904). "Descriptions of Australian Micro-Lepidoptera". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 29: 416–417. doi:10.5962/BHL.PART.20163. ISSN 0370-047X. Wikidata Q56011198.