Anarsia dryinopa (Lower, 1897)
 (one synonym is Anarsia trichodeta Meyrick, 1904)
ANACAMPSINAE,   GELECHIIDAE,   GELECHIOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Anarsia dryinopa
(Photo: courtesy of Katarina Christenson, Melba, Australian Capital Territory)

The adult moths have fawn speckled forewings each with irregular variable dark patches. The hindwings are plain fawn. The wingspan is about 1 cm.

Anarsia dryinopa
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

The species has been found in

  • New Zealand,

    as well as in Australia in

  • Western Australia,
  • Northern Territory,
  • Queensland,
  • New South Wales, and
  • Australian Capital Territory.

    Further reading :

    Oswald B. Lower,
    Descriptions of new Australian Lepidoptera,
    Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
    Volume 21 (1897), p. 57.

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    (written 21 March 2008, updated 16 October 2018, 23 October 2020)