Anacampsis Rhabdodes
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''Anacampsis rhabdodes'' 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 Thomas de Grey in 1910. It is found in
Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...
( Tabasco). 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 13 mm. The forewings are pale olivaceous ochreous, transversely and narrowly striate with lines of dark fuscous scales beyond the base to the end of the cell, a minute blackish dot at the extreme base of the costa, a triangular dark fuscous costal shade-spot, before the costal cilia, is followed by a pale cinereous sinuate line, crossing the wing to the tornus. A few fuscous dots surround the apex and termen at the base of the pale brownish ochreous cilia. The hindwings are greyish brown.Biol. centr.-amer. Lep. Heterocera 4 : 36
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Moths described in 1910 Anacampsis Moths of Central America {{Anacampsis-stub