Anacampsis Perquisita
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''Anacampsis perquisita'' 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 ...
of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1922. It is found in
Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...
(Para). The
wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–200 has a wingspan of , and a wandering albatross (''Diomedea exulans'') caught in 1965 had a wingspan of ...
is about 8 mm. The forewings are dark grey irregularly irrorated whitish and with blackish spots on the costa at the base and one-fifth, on the dorsum at the base, and crossing the fold at one-fourth. There is an elongate blackish spot on the middle of the costa. The stigmata form roundish dark fuscous spots, the plical beneath the first discal. A sinuate whitish line is found from three-fourths of the costa to the dorsum before the tornus, preceded on the costa by an elongate blackish spot. There are one or two dark fuscous dots on the costa beyond this, and one on the termen beneath the apex. The hindwings are dark grey.Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 1922 : 78


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Moths described in 1922 Anacampsis Moths of South America {{Anacampsis-stub