''Anarsia dryinopa'' is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is known from

Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...

and the warmer regions of New Zealand in both the North and the South Islands.

Taxonomy

This species was first described in 1897 by

Oswald Bertram Lower Oswald Bertram Lower (1863 in Adelaide, South Australia – 18 March 1925 in Wayville, South Australia) was an Australian chemist and pharmacist who is best known for his contributions to entomology, in particular butterflies and moths. His colle ...

using a specimen collected at

Broken Hill Broken Hill is an inland mining city in the far west of outback New South Wales, Australia. It is near the border with South Australia on the crossing of the Barrier Highway (A32) and the Silver City Highway (B79), in the Barrier Range. It is ...

in New South Wales in June. In 2010 Robert Hoare synonymised ''Izatha griseata'' with this species.

Description

The wingspan is . 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.

Distribution

This species is native to Australia. It has been introduced to New Zealand and has been observed in the Northland, Auckland and Nelson regions.

Host species

The larvae have been recorded feeding on the

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s and in

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s on ''

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'' species in Australia, and in New Zealand they have been reared from the foliage of ''

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'', ''

Acacia melanoxylon ''Acacia melanoxylon'', commonly known as the Australian blackwood, is an ''Acacia'' species native in South eastern Australia. The species is also known as Blackwood, hickory, mudgerabah, Tasmanian blackwood, or blackwood acacia. The tree belon ...

'' and ''

Albizzia julibrissin ''Albizia julibrissin'', the Persian silk tree, pink silk tree, or mimosa tree, is a species of tree in the family Fabaceae, native to southwestern Asia and eastern Asia. The genus is named after the Italian nobleman Filippo degli Albizzi, who i ...

''.

References

dryinopa Moths described in 1897 Moths of New Zealand Moths of Australia Taxa named by Oswald Bertram Lower {{Anacampsinae-stub