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Anacampsis kearfottella

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Gelechiidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Anacampsis

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

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 luster. At the end of the cell is a small round black dot. At 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.

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Anacampsis kearfottella Wikipedia