Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Gelechiidae Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Anacampsis | |
Anacampsis scalata is a moth of the Gelechiidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1914. It is found in Guyana and Brazil (Para).
The wingspan is 12-14 mm. The forewings are fuscous, strongly and suffusedly irrorated with whitish and with black basal dots on the costa and in the middle. There are three wedge-shaped blackish spots on the costa at one-fourth, the middle, and before the subterminal line. There is an oblique dark fuscous mark on the fold beneath the first of these, and a small round spot towards the costa before the second. The stigmata are dark fuscous, the plical slightly before the first discal, the second discal larger. The subterminal line is obscurely whitish, from three-fourths of the costa to the tornus, forming a spot on the costa, sinuate inwards on the upper half, on the dorsum preceded by an undefined spot of dark brown suffusion. There are two distinct black dots on the costa towards the apex and termen beneath the apex, and sometimes two or three other smaller ones. The hindwings are dark grey, lighter in the disc anteriorly.