''Acanthophila kuznetzovi'' is a

moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...

in the family

Gelechiidae The Gelechiidae are a family of moths commonly referred to as twirler moths or gelechiid moths. They are the namesake family of the huge and little-studied superfamily Gelechioidea, and the family's taxonomy has been subject to considerable dis ...

. It is only known from the southern part of

Primorsky Krai Primorsky Krai (russian: Приморский край, r=Primorsky kray, p=prʲɪˈmorskʲɪj kraj), informally known as Primorye (, ), is a federal subject (a krai) of Russia, located in the Far East region of the country and is a part of the ...

, Russia.

Description

The

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is 12–13 mm. The forewings are brown, with three indistinct dark-brown dots, two of these at the middle and at the end of the cell, and the third at the anal fold. There are also two light-grey short strokes and a thicker costal one, as well as a dorsal one before the tornus. The hindwings are grey.

Etymology

The species is named for Prof. V.I. Kuznetzov of the Zoological Institute in St. Petersburg., 1998: New taxonomic data on ''Dichomeridinae'' (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) from the Russian Far East. ''Far Eastern Entomologist'' 67: 1-17. Full article:

References

kuznetzovi Moths described in 1998 Moths of Asia {{Dichomeridinae-stub