''Anarsia antisaris'' 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 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 was described by

Edward Meyrick Edward Meyrick (25 November 1854, in Ramsbury – 31 March 1938, at Thornhanger, Marlborough) was an English schoolmaster and amateur entomologist. He was an expert on microlepidoptera and some consider him one of the founders of modern micr ...

in 1913. It is found in

South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring countri ...

. 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 14 mm. The forewings are pale greyish-ochreous irregularly and suffusedly irrorated with grey and with an indistinct blackish dot beneath the costa near the base. There is an irregular patch of fuscous suffusion partially sprinkled with blackish in the disc before the middle, extended over the costal two-thirds of the wing from the middle to the apex, with raised spots of grey and whitish irroration on the fold before the middle of the wing, and above the tornus. A curved-bent transverse line of silvery irroration is found towards the apex, and another around the apex. The hindwings are rather dark grey, with a pale subhyaline longitudinal median streak.Ann. Transv. Mus. 3 (4)
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References

Endemic moths of South Africa antisaris Moths described in 1913 Moths of Africa {{Anacampsinae-stub