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Anarsia dryinopa
Anarsia dryinopa is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. This species was first described by Oswald Bertram Lower in 1897. It is native to Australia and was introduced to New Zealand where it can be found in both the North and the South Islands.
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Description
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.
Range & habitat
This species is native to Australia. It has been introduced to New Zealand and has been observed in the Northland, Auckland and Nelson regions.
Wikipedia: “Distribution”
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 385578.