Anacampsis cornifer

Short description: Species of moth

Anacampsis cornifer

Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Lepidoptera
Family:  | Gelechiidae
Genus:  | Anacampsis
Species:  |

A. cornifer

Binomial name
Anacampsis cornifer

Walsingham, 1897

Anacampsis cornifer is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Thomas de Grey, in 1897. It is found in the West Indies (St. Croix and St. Thomas).[1]

The wingspan is 10–11 mm. The forewings are greyish ochreous, indistinctly speckled with fuscous, a black dot at the extreme base of the costa, two fuscous dots in the fold, two on the discal cell, a slight fuscous costal shade above the end of the cell, followed by a pale ochreous spot, a few fuscous scales lying around the apex and termen. There is a slight greyish suffusion across the middle of the wing, and beyond it from the pale costal spot a curved band, paler than the ground-colour, is indistinctly traceable across the wing. The hindwings are brownish grey.

The larvae have been recorded feeding on Croton flavens.[2]

## References

1. ↑ funet.fi
2. ↑ Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1897 : 79 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

Wikidata ☰ Q13367545 entry

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