''Anarsia euphorodes'' 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 is found in

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

and

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...

. 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 12 mm. The forewings are ochreous-whitish, thinly and irregularly speckled with grey and with a small undefined spot of blackish-grey speckling on the middle of the costa. There are some irregular blackish-grey speckling in the middle of the disc, as well as some slight blackish dots on the tornus and on the termen beneath the apex. The hindwings are light grey, subhyaline and whitish-tinged anteriorly.Exotic Microlep. 2 (16): 503

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Moths described in 1922 euphorodes Moths of Asia Moths of Taiwan {{Anacampsinae-stub